VITA SACKVILLE WEST SENDING A SIGNED PHOTO SACKVILLE WEST (Vita, 1892-1962, Poet & Novelist)

Fine Typed Letter Signed "V. Sackville-West" to Miss Richardson thanking her for her "nice letter about my book on the Women's Land Army. It is very gratifying to know that you have read it more than once and I expect that you can now give your mother a great deal of information about the Land Army which perhaps she did not already know. I am sending you a photograph I am afraid it is only the photograph of a painting but it is the only thing that I have got ...", together with the signed image she is referring to, a reproduction of William Strang's painting "Lady with a Red Hat", signed under the image, the letter 1 side 8vo., and the picture 9" x 6", with original envelope, Sissinghurst Castle, 15th March

Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet, and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry during her lifetime and 13 novels. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf.
'The Women's Land Army', written by Vita Sackville-West (under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries) was published in 1944 and reprinted by the Imperial War Museum in 1997. Published when the Women's Land Army was still active, the book provides an insight into the work undertaken by the Land Girls and provides the chronological context to its formation and part played in both world wars.


Item Date:  1945

Stock No:  40853     

                


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