Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919-1962

Description

The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel. It was one of the happiest and strangest marriages there has ever been. Both Vita and Harold were always in love with other people and each gave the other full liberty without enquiry or reproach, knowing that their love for each other would be unaffected and even strengthened by the crises which it survived. This account of their love story is now a modern classic.

Nigel Nicolson is the son of the politician, diarist and biographer Harold Nicolson and the poet and writer Vita Sackville-West. The family were close friends with Virginia and Leonard Woolf. Nicolson was the co-founder of Weidenfeld and Nicolson, was a Conservative MP in the 1950s and is the author of fifteen previous books. Previous titles: Harold Nicolson Diaries (Bfmt Nov 05); Virginia Woolf (Lives Series); Kent; Mary Curzon; Long Life: Memoirs; World of Jane Austen; Portrait of a Marriage; Vita and Harold

Vita and Harold have become part of our literature * Observer * Editor Nigel Nicolson has provided ample biographical information in the introduction and commentary to satisfy even the most curious, and the letters provide a good stepping stone to the fascinating diary/biography, Portrait of a Marriage * Los Angeles Times *