Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Matthew Dennison
Aristocrat, literary celebrity, ‘Rose Queen’, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast – Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography.
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Aristocrat, literary celebrity, ‘Rose Queen’, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast – Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography.
Vita Sackville-West was a woman who defied categorisation. She was the dispossessed girl whose lonely childhood at Knole inspired enduring feats of imagination, the celebrated author and poet, the adored and affectionate wife whose marriage included passionate homosexual affairs (most famously with Virginia Woolf ), and the recluse who found in nature and her garden at Sissinghurst Castle solace from the contradictions of her extraordinary life. In this dazzling new biography, Matthew Dennison traces these complexities, depicting a prolific, radical, sensitive and uncompromising figure in all her depth.
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Title - Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Edition -
Author - Matthew Dennison
ISBN 13 - 9780007486984
Imprint - William Collins
Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published - 04/06/2015
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No. of pages -
Binding Type - Paperback
Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 24mm
Weight - 300 g
Languages - English