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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.
Scott bequeathed to his mistress Victoria Sackville-West (Baroness Sackville) much of his property together with the sum of £150,000. She sold the art collection in the rue Laffitte apartment to the Paris art dealer Jacques Seligmann for £270,000.
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 ...
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".
The West family is a noble family in the United Kingdom and a prominent family in the history of the U.S. state of Virginia. The Sackville-West branch is descended from George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr, originally a West who added the surname of his wife, Elizabeth Sackville. The most famous is Vita Sackville-West.
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.
Vita Sackville-West, in her novel All Passion Spent, places the key meeting between Deborah, Lady Slane, and Mr FitzGeorge, at Fatehpur Sikri. She stood again on the terrace of the deserted Indian city looking across the brown landscape where puffs of rising dust marked at intervals the road to Agra.