Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biography of V. Sackville-West |
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... Dorothy Wellesley it was a very present joy shared in poetry and gardening through the twenties and early thirties , dissolved by Dorothy's eventual unhappiness and isolation . With Violet and Harold , though , the bond seemed to hold ...
... Dorothy Wellesley it was a very present joy shared in poetry and gardening through the twenties and early thirties , dissolved by Dorothy's eventual unhappiness and isolation . With Violet and Harold , though , the bond seemed to hold ...
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... Dorothy Wellesley who spotted the advertisement for a sixteenth - century castle in Kent , and it was she who took Vita and Nigel down to look round . On 4 April 1930 Harold wrote in his diary : ' Vita telephones to say she has seen the ...
... Dorothy Wellesley who spotted the advertisement for a sixteenth - century castle in Kent , and it was she who took Vita and Nigel down to look round . On 4 April 1930 Harold wrote in his diary : ' Vita telephones to say she has seen the ...
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... Dorothy Wellesley from her land agent , whose brother Captain Oswald Beale had farmed Bettenham Farm since resigning his army commission in 1920 . Captain Beale took over Castle Farm when the Nicolsons bought it , and eventually came to ...
... Dorothy Wellesley from her land agent , whose brother Captain Oswald Beale had farmed Bettenham Farm since resigning his army commission in 1920 . Captain Beale took over Castle Farm when the Nicolsons bought it , and eventually came to ...
Contents
List of Colour Plates | 6 |
Introduction I | 12 |
The Mighty Shadow in the Gardens Dip | 19 |
Copyright | |
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