Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden

Sackville-West, Vita; Raven, Sarah

ISBN 10: 1844088960 / ISBN 13: 9781844088966

Published by Virago, 2014

First edition Book in near fine condition. Inscribed by Raven Wrapper in very good condition Colours slightly faded on spine . Creasing to base spine. Seller Inventory # ABE-1764937685337

Synopsis:

A lavish hardback celebrating one of Britain's best-loved gardens.

About the Author:

Sarah Raven, writer, cook, broadcaster and teacher, runs cooking, flower arranging, growing and gardening courses at the school she set up in 1999 at her farm in East Sussex. She has written three cookery books, as well as Wild Flowers and four gardening books including The Cutting Garden. Sarah Raven is married to the writer Adam Nicolson and has lived with her family at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent.

Vita Sackville-West was born in 1892 at Knole in Kent. A distinguished critic, biographer, award-winning poet, novelist and gardener, she published twelve novels, including All Passion Spent and The Edwardians. Her relationship with Virginia Woolf is celebrated in Woolf's novel, Orlando, and the story of her life with Harold Nicolson, one of the strangest and happiest love stories, was portrayed in Portrait of a Marriage by their son Nigel Nicolson. She died at Sissinghurst, aged seventy, in 1962.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst: The ...
Publisher: Virago
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition