Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

by Sackville-West, Vita; Caws, Mary Ann; Nicolson, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9781403963185
• ISBN10: 1403963185
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-08
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveller, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life at the center of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel narrative, poetry, fiction, and essays, and is probably best known for her novels, The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, and for her incomparable writings about English country gardens. Here, for the first time, is an anthology which truly represents the expanse of her interests and styles. Over half of the works including intimate diaries and a dream notebook, have never been published. Edited by a foremost expert on the Bloomsbury circle, Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings provides the best and most accessible introduction to this unique writer.

Author Biography

Mary Ann Caws is a renowned critic of the Bloomsbury circle, modernism, and surrealism. She is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Henri Peyre French Institute at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Preface by Nigel Nicolson is the son of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. He recently published a biography of Virginia Woolf in the Penguin Lives series and is the author of the acclaimedPortrait of a Marriage.

Table of Contents

Preface by Nigel Nicolson

Introduction