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“The Marriage Portrait” tells the somewhat true story of Lucrezia di Cosimo de’Medici, forced at 15 to marry the older Alfonso II d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, in order to unite two powerful ...
Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, [4] and the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. [5] The Marriage Portrait was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.
The book relates to Sackville-West's complicated marriage to writer and politician Harold Nicolson. Two chapters are written by Sackville-West. 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 ...
Portrait of a Marriage is a British television miniseries detailing the real-life love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel, as well as the strength of Vita's enduring marriage to the diplomat Harold Nicolson. Based on the biography of the same name by Nigel Nicolson, it features Janet McTeer as Vita, and Cathryn Harrison as Violet.
Her 2022 New York Times bestseller, The Marriage Portrait, is similarly gripping. In 1550s Florence, Italy, Lucrezia, the third daughter of the grand duke, is free to live life on her own terms.
"The Marriage Portrait" by Maggie O'Farrell also expands on the framework provided by Browning. [16] "My Last Missis" is a short story by David Lodge forming part of his contemporary collection The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories. The narrator is a crass and wealthy businessman whose wife died suddenly just before he was obliged to ...
54-year-old Slovenian-American Melania, a former fashion model who served as the first lady from 2017 to 2021, details how she felt “violated” by the FBI raid in her memoir.
He co-wrote a celebrated 1973 book on his parents, Portrait of a Marriage. It balanced a frank account of his bisexual parents' extramarital affairs (especially Vita Sackville-West 's ' elopement ' with Violet Trefusis ) with their enduring love for each other and caused an uproar when it was published.