1955 The Land

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Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper, With Letter

Letter on Sissinghurst letterhead loosely inserted, '27th January 1944, Dear Mrs.Dunn, Very many thanks for your letter. I quite agree with you that a very interesting book could be written on the subject you suggest, but I feel that it would need enormous research into the activities which have actually been carried out already by women and that I therefore should not be qualified to write it. It would be much more the subject for somebody like Mrs.Strachey who wrote a history of the women's movement called "The Cause". I am afraid that Mrs. Strachey has recently died. Still there must be other women who have specialised in the subject. I see you say that you were on the Letitia going to Greece and wish so much that you had introduced yourself then. How often I think of that lovely journey and wish it could be repeated. Yours Sincerely, V. Sackville-West'.

In the original unclipped dustwrapper.

Vita Sackville-West's popular pastoral poem, a book length narrative poem celebrating the rural landscape of the area in which Vita lived.

Sackville-West, well known today for her friendship and relationship with fellow author, Virginia Woolf. Sackville-West provided the inspiration for Woolf's beloved novel 'Orlando'. Sackville-West was also a noted garden designer at her house Sissinghurst, the garden of which is still celebrated today.

Illustrated with woodcuts by George Plank.

A reprint of this work.