Vita Sackville-West
Born
in Kent, England
March 09, 1892
Died
June 02, 1962
Genre
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All Passion Spent
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70 editions
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published
1931
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
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17 editions
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published
1985
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The Edwardians
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44 editions
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published
1930
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No Signposts in the Sea
14 editions
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published
1961
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A Note of Explanation: An Undiscovered Story from Queen Mary's Dollhouse
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7 editions
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published
1922
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Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden
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15 editions
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published
1997
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Family History
4 editions
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published
1932
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Saint Joan of Arc
30 editions
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published
1936
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Passenger to Teheran
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16 editions
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published
1926
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Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
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7 editions
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published
1992
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“Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”
― The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
― The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this —But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”
― The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
― The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
“I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”
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