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by Vita Sackville-West (Author), Victoria Glendinning (Introduction) "HENRY LYULP HOLLAND, first Earl of Slane, had existed for so long that the public had begun to regard him as immortal ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New edition edition (12 May 1983)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0860683583
  • ISBN-13: 978-0860683582
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 22,163 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Shades of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Ivy Compton-Burnett. A very gifted writer of fiction' GAY TIMES


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First published in 1931, Vita Sackville-West's masterpiece is the fictional companion to her great friend Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own'. As an unmarried seventeen year old Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambition - her desire to become an artist. Instead, she becomes the wife of a great statesman and the mother of six children. Seventy years later, released by widowhood, and to the dismay of her pompous children she abandons the family home for a tiny house in Hampstead. Here she recollects the dreams of youth, and revels in the present with her odd assortment of companions: Genoux, her French maid, Mr Bucktrout, her house agent and Mr Gosheron, her painter and carpenter. She is also accompanied by Mr FitzGeorge, an eccentric millionaire who had met and loved her in India when she was young and very lovely. It is here in this world of her own that she finds a passion that comes only with the freedom to choose and it is this, her greatest gift, that she passes on to the only one who can understand its value.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Self-contained and poignant, 7 Jan 2001
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This is an elegy for a wasted life. Sackville paints an intimate portrait of an old lady who in the eyes of society has had it all, wealth, a title, children a distinguished husband; and shows the real woman on the inside. The real woman mourns her younger self, a vital woman who wanted to spend her life painting and make painting her life. Now, with her husband dead she isolates herself and takes stock of what the purpose of her life has been. It is sweet and melancholy, yet saved from being sentimental by real touches of humour and satire and a couple of key points of redemption within the structure of the novel.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A elegant, perceptive, polished gem of a book, 22 Aug 1999
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How effortlessly Ms. Sackville-West spins her surprisingly moving story of an aging aristocrat who, near the end of her life, decides to do those things she could never do before as she sublimated herself to her strong, successful and controlling husband. This classic British diplomat, who expected to be obeyed because such were the times, was, after all, so much more important than she was and what an interesting life she had in his shadow, didn't she - so conscientious and such a good wife and mother. What she does when he dies, how she perceives her existence and her place in her family - and how they respond - will catch you up in its wake and carry you to the ending, which is perfect and thus bittersweet. I found this a memorable novella.
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5.0 out of 5 stars All Passion Spent, 1 Feb 2004
An interesting book, whose flashbacks reveal the true but suppressed personality of the main protagonist, Lady Slane, a woman whose charater was never truly appreciated neither by her husband nor by her many children.
One has the feeling her true life begins after the death of her husband,with her living in Hampstead. The village of Hampstead represents an emotional as well as a spacial seperation from the children and her previous existence.
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