Vita Sackville-West is considered a lesbian icon. Nigel Nicolson caused a storm in 1973 when he published Portrait of a Marriage, an account of the affair between his mother, Vita, and Violet Trefusis. Victoria Glendinning revealed the full story of Vita’s love life in her biography, published in 1983. In this astute and engaging book, Matthew Dennison looks again at Vita’s extraordinary life and makes a new sort of sense of it.

Nov 2014

Prime Minister’s Pet

Full of Heirs and Graces

Going Jungly

Wanderlust

Rex Whistler Painted Her Hall

Hythe Society

Grand Dame of Downing Street

Treachery at the Palace

From the Sewers

Passage from India

Building Jerusalem in the Home Countries

Where’s Wallis?

Welfare & Warfare

Woman in Black

Winds of Change

Unhappy Valley

Eminence Rose

Alpha Female

Day of the Spinster

Our Woman in Number 10

The Righteous Reformer

Chilblains and Petticoats

The Goat and the Pussycat

Dancing on a Volcano

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