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Orlando: A Biography. Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels; Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form.
Vita Sackville-West. 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.
Mary Garman. Roy and Mary Campbell (left), Jacob Kramer and Dolores (right), 1920s. Mary Margaret Garman Campbell (1898–1979) was the eldest of seven sisters known for their glamorous, bohemian lifestyles and their many love affairs with famous artists, writers, and musicians of interwar London. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and ...
Le loup de la côte Ouest (English title: The Wolf of the West Coast) A Hugo Santiago film with James Faulkner and Anna Mouglalis features unsimulated sex scenes. [249] French, English Blissfully Yours (S̄ud s̄aǹeh̄ā) This film, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, contains a non-simulated scene of manual stimulation of penis to erection ...
The Land (poem) The Land. (poem) The Land is a book-length narrative poem by Vita Sackville-West. Published in 1926 by William Heinemann, it is a Georgic celebration of the rural landscape, traditions and history of the Kentish Weald where Sackville-West lived. The poem was popular enough for there to be six print runs in the first three years ...
The book relates to Sackville-West's complicated marriage to writer and politician Harold Nicolson. Two chapters are written by Sackville-West. They are centred on herself and her passion for Violet Trefusis for whom she abandoned Harold Nicolson, Vita's bisexual husband and her two children, Nigel and Ben . Three chapters were written by her ...
September 18, 2017. The West Main Street Historic District encompasses a late 19th and early 20th century commercial area of Charlottesville, Virginia, developed during the area's growth as a streetcar suburb. It is basically linear in character, extending along West Main Street from Ridge Street in the east to the railroad crossing west of 8th ...
Saint Joan of Arc is a biography of Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West first published in New York and London in 1936. The Grove Press (New York City) re-issue of 2001 runs to 395 pages including appendices which collate the events of Joan's life, present a chronological table and give a bibliography of related pre-1936 works. [citation needed]