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All Passion Spent is a literary fiction novel by Vita Sackville-West. Published in 1931, it is one of Sackville-West's most popular works and has been adapted for television by the BBC. Published in 1931, it is one of Sackville-West's most popular works and has been adapted for television by the BBC.
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer. Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist.
Sackville-West's marriage to Jacobine Hichens (née Menzies-Wilson) in 1953 produced five daughters, and on the birth of each one, his cousin Vita Sackville-West wrote a letter bemoaning the failure to produce a male heir for the Knole estate. Vita was greatly affected by the fact that, as a woman, she was barred from inheriting Knole from her ...
Dorothy Wellesley became the lover of Vita Sackville-West, for whom she left her husband and children in 1922, according to a memoir published in 2009 by her granddaughter, Lady Jane Wellesley. [ 7 ]
Vita Sackville-West's novel All Passion Spent. Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novel The Five Red Herrings. Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves. Second edition of the hymnal Songs of Praise, including Eleanor Farjeon's Morning Has Broken.
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Vita hedges, Vita praises, present company included all writers suck, Vita is Sappho, Vita gets a sex change, and Vita snaps Virginia out of one of her fits. The quote concerning Orlando might be suitable for inclusion in the main text. She's mentioned as Sackville-West in an entry from 4 June 1923 about a walk around a garden.