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Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biography of Vita Sackville-West
Author: Jane Brown
Soft cover, good condition.
Vita’s Other World: A Gardening Biography of Vita Sackville-West by Jane Brown is an elegant and insightful study of the celebrated writer’s lifelong passion for gardens, revealing how horticulture shaped her identity, creativity, and daily existence. Brown traces Sackville-West’s evolution from the gardens of her childhood at Knole to the creation of the iconic gardens at Sissinghurst, showing how each landscape reflected her personal relationships, artistic sensibilities, and emotional retreats. Blending biography, cultural history, and garden criticism, the book offers a richly textured portrait of a woman who found in plants, seasons, and cultivated beauty a parallel world as vivid and expressive as her literary one.
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