Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

Aristocrat novelist essayist traveler and lover of Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres including travel narrative historical and literary studies poetry fiction and essays and is probably best known or her novels The Edwardians and All Passion Spent and incomparable writings about English country houses and gardens. Here for the first time is an anthology that represents the full 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.