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All Passion Spent
After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane--a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India--everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle Lady Slane has other ideas. First she defies the patronizing meddling of her children and escapes to a rented house in Hampstead. There, to her offspring's utter amazement, she revels in her new freedom, recalls her youthful ambitions, and gathers some very unsuitable companions--who reveal to her just how much she had sacrificed under the pressure of others' expectations.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Jul 11st, 2017
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.30in - 0.50in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9780525433972
- Categories: • Classics• Literary• Family Life - General
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'Those who do not learn from twitter threads and GIFs about the history of philanthropy are doomed to repeat them.'
Born OTD in 1892, English author & poet Vita Sackville-West. Her 1931 novel "All Passion Spent" centres on themes of wealth, responsibility & inheritance. E.g in this scene where the protagonist Lady Slane grapples with the qn of giving money away vs leaving it to her heirs: https://t.co/8nmclOWcyt
We’re a digital archive for early 20th century publishing houses, starting w the books, people and records of the Hogarth Press. #dh #modernism Group account.
Correspondence relating to Vita Sackville-West and her novels ‘All Passion Spent’ and ‘Seducers in Ecuador’ is now available.This link takes you to a wonderful letter where Vita thanks Leonard Woolf for sending her the 1000th copy of ‘Seducers’…https://t.co/ZhvCmD0jHE
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"He wondered which wounds were deeper: the rending wounds of reality, or the deep, invisible bruises of imagination." ~ Vita Sackville West, “All Passion Spent” (1931) 📷 Howard Coster, 1934 thanks to @zarandillo https://t.co/ez04xpJPLl
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What people are saying
'Those who do not learn from twitter threads and GIFs about the history of philanthropy are doomed to repeat them.'
Born OTD in 1892, English author & poet Vita Sackville-West. Her 1931 novel "All Passion Spent" centres on themes of wealth, responsibility & inheritance. E.g in this scene where the protagonist Lady Slane grapples with the qn of giving money away vs leaving it to her heirs: https://t.co/8nmclOWcyt
We’re a digital archive for early 20th century publishing houses, starting w the books, people and records of the Hogarth Press. #dh #modernism Group account.
Correspondence relating to Vita Sackville-West and her novels ‘All Passion Spent’ and ‘Seducers in Ecuador’ is now available.This link takes you to a wonderful letter where Vita thanks Leonard Woolf for sending her the 1000th copy of ‘Seducers’…https://t.co/ZhvCmD0jHE