Portrait of a marriage

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Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of her love affair with Violet Keppel Trefusis in 1920 is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, Nigel Nicolson combines his mother's vivid memoir of escapade with what he learned from copious family letters and explains the context of this romantic cr...

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ISBN:

9780226583570
0226583570

Edition:

University of Chicago Press edition

Description:

xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes autobiographical text by Vita Sackville-West
Originally published: New York : Atheneum, 1973
Includes index

Contents:

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Part I by V. Sackville-West
Chronology 1827-1917
Part II by Nigel Nicolson
Part III by V. Sackville-West
Chronology 1918-1921
Part IV by Nigel Nicolson
Part V by Nigel Nicolson
Index
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Sackville-West, V, (Victoria), 1892-1962 Marriage, Nicolson, Harold George, Sir, 1886-1968 Marriage, Trefusis, Violet Keppel, 1894-1972 Relations with women, Authors, English 20th century Biography, Married people Great Britain Biography, Diplomats Great Britain Biography

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98023343

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3380112

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Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962

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