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Vita Sackville-West
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Vita Sackville-West : Seducers in Ecuador
'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it all the time, and came back and finished it, being full of a particular kind of interest which I daresay has something to do with its being the sort of thing I should like to write myself.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Manuscript: Unknown
Vita Sackville-West : Passenger to Teheran
'The whole book is full of nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring. Sometimes one wants a candle in one's hand though - That's my only criticism - you've left (I daresay in haste) one or two dangling dim places....'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Manuscript: Sheet, Earlier in the letter Virginia Woolf describes the form of the text she read as 'the second batch of proofs'.
Vita Sackville-West : On the Lake
Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anything yet of hers.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf
Vita Sackville-West : Collected Poems
'And the book came. And I've read one or two of the new ones. And I liked them yes - I liked the one to Enid Bagnold; and I think I see how you may develop differently.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf
Vita Sackville-West : Country Notes
'I've not read it (and I dont suppose you'd care a damn to know what I thought, if I thought about it considered as a work of art - or would you?) - but I dipped in and read about Saulieu and the fair and the green glass bottle....I shall keep it by my bed, and when I wake in the night - so, I shant use it as a soporific, but as a sedative: a dose of sanity and sheep dog in this scratching, clawing, and colding universe....'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Vita Sackville-West : Heritage
'I read Celery through from cover to cover last night in bed. It really is good.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson Print: Book
Vita Sackville-West : Grey Wethers
' "I have been reading Grey Wethers," said the Marquis- "a magnificent book. The descriptions of the downs are as fine as any in the language. Such power! Such power! Not a pleasant book of course! But what English!" '
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Curzon Print: Book
Vita Sackville-West : The Land
'He sat down on the floor beside me, and helped me to look up "droil". "What's this?" he said, taking up my proofs. I simpered. He took them out into the garden, spread a rug very carefully on the grass, and began to read. I fled upstairs and packed. After an hour I re-appeared. The Laureate was still reading.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Bridges Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs
Vita Sackville-West : The Land
'Darling, do you know what I did last night after writing to you? I meant to finish my lecture, but fell to reading the Georgics (mine, not Virgil's), and really I thought they were rather good.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West : Passenger to Teheran
'(I read it through at a sitting - but that of course is not a good test...)
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson Print: Book
Vita Sackville-West : Passenger to Teheran
'I let Colonel Haworth read a bit of it. "By God!" he said, "this is the first book I've read on Persia which gives one the slightest idea what it's like." '
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group:
Vita Sackville-West : The Land
'Dearest - you don't know what "The Land" means to me! I read it incessantly - it has become a real wide undertone to my life.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson
Vita Sackville-West : Solitude
'I had time yesterday to read your poem. In fact I read it three times. Once in the train. Once after luncheon in the library. And once before I went to bed.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson
Vita Sackville-West : The Land
'On the flyleaf of her novel she quoted from V. Sackville-West's pastoral poem, "The Land", a verse which testified to her abiding sense of the Yorkshire that made her.'