![]() ![]() ![]() sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. ![]() Sackville West has borrowed in her prose writing some…įunction of poetry, the ability to suggest far more than she says.’ New York Times ‘Witty and charming and graceful and brilliant. 4,222 ratings 508 reviews shelved 13,829 times Showing 25 distinct works. There, too, she recollects the dreams of her youth and at last, with one last ‘strange and lovely thing,’ acts upon the passion she forfeited seventy years earlier to the narrow conventions of a proper Victorian marriage. There she alters, and not without some success, the course of her personal history. She dismisses the wishes and plans of her six pompous sons and daughters for her future, and instead retires to a tiny house in Hampstead, where she chooses to live independently and free from her past. Having surrendered seven decades of her life to the exemplary, if often hollow fulfillment of her marriage, to the expectations of her statesman husband and the demands of her children, Lady Slane finally, in her widowhood, defies her family. All Passion Spent / Return of the Soldier / Two Days in AragonĮchoing the themes in A Room of One’s Own by her great friend Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville West remaps the destiny of the gentle, gracious eighty eight year old Lady Slane in this classic modern novel. ![]()
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