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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Dennison, Matthew, author.     Subjects     Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962.     Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dennison, Matthew, author.       by title:      Behind the mask : th...         MARC Display

Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West / Matthew Dennison. by Dennison, Matthew, author. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015. Subjects Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962.   Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography. ISBN:  9781250033949 (hardcover) : 1250033942 (hardcover) Description:  xix, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 25 cm Edition:  First U.S. edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization. In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison traces the triumph and contradictions of Vita's extraordinary life. His narrative charts a fascinating course from Vita's lonely childhood at Knole, through her affectionate but 'open' marriage to Harold Nicolson (during which both husband and wife energetically pursued homosexual affairs, Vita most famously with Virginia Woolf), and through Vita's literary successes and disappointments, to the famous gardens the couple created at Sissinghurst. The book tells how, from her privileged world of the aristocracy, Sackville-West brought her penchant for costume, play-acting and rebellion to the artistic vanguard of modern Britain. Dennison is the acclaimed author of many books including a biography of Queen Victoria. Here, in the first biography to be written of Vita for thirty years, he reveals the whole story and gets behind 'the beautiful mask' of Vita's public achievements to reveal an often troubled persona which heroically resisted compromise on every level. Drawing on wideranging sources and the extensive letters that sustained her marriage, this is a compelling story of love, loss and jealousy, of high-life and low points, of binding affection and illicit passion - a portrait of an extraordinary, 20th-century life"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 823.912 Sackville-West De Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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