V. Sackville-West

The Heir (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Although he comes from a distinguished, landed family, Mr. Chase has no interest in continuing the traditions of his ancestors. A modern man, an insurance salesman, he intends to sell his family estate the moment he inherits the centuries old castle and surrounding acres. Inspired by her own family history, The Heir is a novel by Vita Sackville-West.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513212074
• Artikelnr.: 62663951

Autorenporträt

Vita Sackville-West (1892-1952) was an English novelist, poet, journalist, and gardener. Born at Knole, the Sackville's hereditary home in west Kent, Vita was the daughter of English peer Lionel Sackville-West and his cousin Victoria, herself the illegitimate daughter of the 2nd Baron Sackville and a Spanish dancer named Pepita. Educated by governesses as a young girl, Vita later attended school in Mayfair, where she met her future lover Violet Keppel. An only child, she entertained herself by writing novels, plays, and poems in her youth, both in English and French. At the age of eighteen, she made her debut in English society and was courted by powerful and well-connected men. She had affairs with men and women throughout her life, leading an open marriage with diplomat Harold Nicholson. Following their wedding in 1913, the couple moved to Constantinople for one year before returning to settle in England, where they raised two sons. Vita's most productive period of literary output, in which she published such works as The Land (1926) and All Passion Spent (1931), coincided with her affair with English novelist Virginia Woolf, which lasted from 1925 to 1935. The success of Vita's writing-published through Woolf's Hogarth Press-allowed her lover to publish some of her masterpieces, including The Waves (1931) and Orlando (1928), the latter being inspired by Sackville-West's family history, androgynous features, and unique personality. Vita died at the age of seventy at Sissinghurst Castle, where she worked with her husband to design one of England's most famous gardens.