Vita
The Life of Vita Sackville-West
(Sprache: Englisch)
Vita Sackville-West the most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group - was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most...
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Vita Sackville-West the most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group - was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghurst. In her Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Glendinning documents Vitas extraordinary life, focusing on her relationships with Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, her husband, and her two sons together with her unpublicised love affairs. Vita was determined to be more than just a married woman; her passionate, secretive character, and the strains, mistakes and achievements of her remarkable life makes this an absorbing and disturbing book.
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Vita Sackville-West - the most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group - was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghurst. In her Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Glendinning documents Vita's extraordinary life, focusing on her relationships with Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, her husband, and her two sons together with her unpublicised love affairs. Vita was determined to be more than just a married woman; her passionate, secretive character, and the strains, mistakes and achievements of her remarkable life makes this an absorbing and disturbing book.
Autoren-Porträt von Victoria Glendinning
Victoria Glendinning is a biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. Her biographies include A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death of a Quaker Daughter; Elizabeth Bowen: Portait of a Writer; Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Prize); Rebecca West; Anthony Trollope (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Biography), Jonathan Swift and Leonard Woolf. Her most recent biography is a life of Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, published by Profile in 2012. Her novels include The Grown-Ups, Electricity and Flight.Victoria is an Honorary Vice-President of English PEN, Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature and a Trustee of the Man Booker Foundation. She was awarded a CBE in 1998.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Victoria Glendinning
- 2018, 430 Seiten, Masse: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: I.B.Tauris
- ISBN-10: 1788312430
- ISBN-13: 9781788312431
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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