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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.
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly 60 years. Writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took command of the screen whenever she appeared on film".
Vita Sackville-West – All Passion Spent [27] Dorothy Sayers – Five Red Herrings [28] George S. Schuyler – Black No More; Nevil Shute – Lonely Road; Georges Simenon – Pietr-le-Letton (book format) Upton Sinclair – Roman Holiday; Eleanor Smith – Flamenco; Stanislas-André Steeman — The Six Dead Men; Cecil Street – Tragedy on the ...
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 ...
All the King's Men: Robert Penn Warren: Anon., "Humpty Dumpty" All Passion Spent: Vita Sackville-West: John Milton, Samson Agonistes: Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea: Michael Morpurgo: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes: Angus Wilson: Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass [1] Antic Hay: Aldous Huxley ...
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Their daughter, born in 1892, was the writer, poet, and gardener Vita Sackville-West. The family lived mainly at Knole House , an estate that had been in the Sackville family for centuries. Victoria was notorious for beginning and dropping various money-making schemes, some intended for supposedly charitable aims, but most for her personal use.