This author wrote about both Therese of Lisieux and Teresa of Avila in the double biography The Eagle and the Dove.
This author wrote about both Therese of Lisieux and Teresa of Avila in the double biography The Eagle and the Dove. Her most popular biography was of her grandmother, a Spanish-born dancer, and was entitled Pepita. This author wrote a novel in which an attempt to have an affair with Teresa Spedding fails after the explorer Leonard Anqetil tries to convince the paramour of Sylvia Roehampton to renounce the estate of Chevron. The elderly Lady Slane attempts to take advantage of the death of her husband in another novel by this author, which is titled for the last words of Samson Agonistes. This author's long pursuit by Violet Trefusis and open marriage to Harold Nicolson were well-known after her son's biography of her, Portrait of a Marriage. For 10 points, name this author of The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, whose lesbian adventures inspired her lover Virginia Woolf to create the character of Orlando.
This author wrote about both Therese of Lisieux and Teresa of Avila in the double biography The Eagle and the Dove.
Vita Sackville-West