Portrait of a Marriage, Vita Sackville-West & Harold Nicolson

Portrait of a Marriage, Vita Sackville-West & Harold Nicolson by Nigel Nicolson. Published by Atheneum, New York, NY, Jan 1974. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardbound in Glassine Protected DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: VG in Good DJ. Discarded Library Book. 249 Pgs. ISBN 0689105746. LCCN 73-80754. An autobiography describing Vita's (a poet and novelist) childhood at Knole, her love affair with a girl that coincided with her long engagement to Harold (author, scholar, diplomat, and statesman), and her elopement, after seven years of marriage, with Vilet Trefusis. She tells the story partly to clear her heart of a passion which was growing cold, and partly because she believed, in 1920, that one day society would accept that women can love women, men can love men, and that a marriage as deeply rooted as hers could survive and actually be enriched by infidelity. Illustrated with photographs. Description text copyright 2001 BooksForComfort. Item ID 4441.