num_pages: 278
description: Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of Sackville-West's marriage to Harold Nicolson is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, their son Nigel combines his mother's memoir with his own explanations and what he learned from their many letters. Even during her various love affairs with women, Vita maintained a loving marriage with Harold. Portrait of a Marriage presents an often misunderstood but always fascinating couple.
language: English
title: Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
titlecomplete: Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
characters: Harold Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West
genres: Classics, British Literature, LGBT, History, Lesbian, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Queer
ratings_count: 2621
places: England
publisher: University of Chicago Press