Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West

Author: Robert S. Cross

Publisher: Oak Knoll Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 328

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A comprehensive bibliography for controversial feminist British author Sackville-West (1892-1962), who is also known as a devoted gardener and close friend of Virginia Wolfe. It includes such novels as The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, and biographies like Pepita about her Spanish dancer grandm


The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850–1930

The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850–1930

Author: Y. Ivory

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-05-07

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 023024243X

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Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with self-fashioning under the sign of the Renaissance provided queer intellectuals with an enduring model of ruthlessly permissive individualism.


The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950

Author: George Watson

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1972-12-07

Total Pages: 746

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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.


Aspects of Aristocracy

Aspects of Aristocracy

Author: David Cannadine

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780300059816

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He reconstructs the extraordinary financial history of the dukes of Devonshire, narrates the story of the Cozens-Hardys, a Norfolk family who played a remarkably varied part in the life of their county, and offers a controversial reappraisal of the forebears, lives, work, and personalities of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West - a portrait, notes Cannadine, of more than a marriage.