Vita's other world : a gardening biography of V. Sackville-West
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Vita's other world : a gardening biography of V. Sackville-West
（Penguin books）
Penguin Books, 1987, c1985
- pbk.
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First published by Viking, 1985
Bibliography: p. 235
Includes index
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Description
In making Sissinghurst, Vita Sackville-West created one of the finest and most famous gardens in England and placed herself among the great gardeners of this century. This book traces Vita's development as a gardener, leading the reader through the past of her beloved Knole, her marriage, travels to Constantinople and Persia, her first garden at Long Barn and finally to Sissinghurst Castle where, with her husband Harold Nicolson, she designed and made a garden of outstanding beauty.
Table of Contents
- Knole - the mighty shadow in the garden's dip
- the grand tourists
- an elk-hound and a rose bush - Long Barn, 1915-25
- paradise - Persia 1926 and 1927
- the constant lure - "The Land" and Long Barn, 1927-30
- the castle and the rose, 1930-39
- the war and "The Garden", 1939-45
- Vita's England
- blundering into fame, 1945-54
- another world than this, 1954-62.
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