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Rooms of Their Own: Eddy Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
Evocative, engaging and filled with vivid details, Rooms of Their Own explores the homes of these three writers linked to the Bloomsbury Group. Bringing together stories of love, desire and intimacy, of evolving relationships and erotic encounters, with vivid accounts of the settings in which they took place, it offers fresh insights into their complicated, interlocking lives. Complete with first-hand accounts, this book illuminates shifting social and moral attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the 1920s and 30s.
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192 pages, Hardcover
Published October 1, 2018
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June 20, 2018
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November 9, 2018
Questo libro è un piccolo gioiellino, una preziosa opera d'arte. Pur non avendo mai letto nulla degli autori di Bloomsbury, ho trovato interessantissimo immergermi nelle loro vite e scoprire le loro personalità attraverso l'estrosità dei luoghi che hanno abitato. Una lettura acculturante, rilassante e bella a livello estetico.
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April 13, 2022
This is ostensibly a book about Sissinghurst, Monk’s House, and Knole with a focus on Virginia and Vita, but what I found it to be is a moving account about gender and homosexuality in England in the 1920s-40s, filled with information (and gorgeous photos) that I didn’t know and that extended far beyond Bloomsbury.
January 5, 2021
Fascinating trip through the homes of several very famous people. Gorgeous photographs and biographical tidbits.
January 10, 2020
INSPIRING!
I love all things Bloomsbury, particularly the art of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. I think I have every book published on the art of Bloomsbury, good and bad! Although this book goes beyond Bloomsbury and it's artists, it is full of beautiful and inspiring art. If you love Charleston Farmhouse and Monks House, you will find much pleasure and profit. I am very glad to add it to my collection and highly recommend it. The photographs and reproductions of the paintings are worth the price alone. MORE PLEASE!!
I love all things Bloomsbury, particularly the art of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. I think I have every book published on the art of Bloomsbury, good and bad! Although this book goes beyond Bloomsbury and it's artists, it is full of beautiful and inspiring art. If you love Charleston Farmhouse and Monks House, you will find much pleasure and profit. I am very glad to add it to my collection and highly recommend it. The photographs and reproductions of the paintings are worth the price alone. MORE PLEASE!!
December 26, 2018
I had recently read "Vita & Virginia: A Double Life"by Sarah Gristwood, of which I greatly enjoyed. "Rooms of Their Own" was a nice complimentary piece, sort of like a joint curated experience, but this time with Eddy Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson getting more coverage than the previously mentioned book. 3.5
February 19, 2020
Saffron bookclub 2019
Solid 4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for this lovely coffee table book about the homes of Eddy Sackville- West, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville- West.
Eddy’s family home was Knole, dating back to 1455, ranking in the top 5 of England’s largest houses, occupying 4 acres.
His rooms there (courtesy of his uncle) were decorated in 1926 in pink, powder blue and punctuated by his favourite pictures of androgynous forms and works by his favourite friends. He was a theatrical sort and also loved velvet, swords, skulls and coloured light bulbs.
Eddy finally established a home of his own in 1945 with Long Crichel House near Wimborne.
He died suddenly in 1965 aged 63.
Knole is open to the public.
Virginia astutely noted “ a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” or give any art a fair go I propose.
The room of her own was Monks House in Sussex, an extension of her Bloomsbury residence. She and husband Leonard filled the cottage like Eddy with the art and furniture of their creative friends.
The cottage was built in the 1500s and is now run by the national trust.
Her mental health, marred by bi polar led her to drown herself in 1941. Leonard outlived her until 1969.
Vita’s family home was Knole, also now run by the national trust. On her father’s death the house and title went to her cousin Charles. Vita’s ire lasted a lifetime.
She married Harold Nicolson and in 1930 they acquired Sissinghurst Castle in Kent.
An Elizabethan ruin, the couple worked to establish the gardens ( now run by the national trust) as one of famous and most visited in England.
Vita died in 1962, Harold in 1968.
The 3 were forever intertwined, by blood, love and disposition. Their open marriages have been a source of much interest in art, literature and film.
The spaces they left behind are testimony to the ideals they pursued.
They wanted to embrace “a new way of living. The Bloomsbury Group celebrated sexual equality and freedom, feeling that every person had the right to live and love in the way that they chose”.
Their position in society sheltered them from the ruin that would have faced lesser mortals.
2020 sees their rooms admired and their status as cultural icons confirmed.
M 2020
Solid 4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for this lovely coffee table book about the homes of Eddy Sackville- West, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville- West.
Eddy’s family home was Knole, dating back to 1455, ranking in the top 5 of England’s largest houses, occupying 4 acres.
His rooms there (courtesy of his uncle) were decorated in 1926 in pink, powder blue and punctuated by his favourite pictures of androgynous forms and works by his favourite friends. He was a theatrical sort and also loved velvet, swords, skulls and coloured light bulbs.
Eddy finally established a home of his own in 1945 with Long Crichel House near Wimborne.
He died suddenly in 1965 aged 63.
Knole is open to the public.
Virginia astutely noted “ a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” or give any art a fair go I propose.
The room of her own was Monks House in Sussex, an extension of her Bloomsbury residence. She and husband Leonard filled the cottage like Eddy with the art and furniture of their creative friends.
The cottage was built in the 1500s and is now run by the national trust.
Her mental health, marred by bi polar led her to drown herself in 1941. Leonard outlived her until 1969.
Vita’s family home was Knole, also now run by the national trust. On her father’s death the house and title went to her cousin Charles. Vita’s ire lasted a lifetime.
She married Harold Nicolson and in 1930 they acquired Sissinghurst Castle in Kent.
An Elizabethan ruin, the couple worked to establish the gardens ( now run by the national trust) as one of famous and most visited in England.
Vita died in 1962, Harold in 1968.
The 3 were forever intertwined, by blood, love and disposition. Their open marriages have been a source of much interest in art, literature and film.
The spaces they left behind are testimony to the ideals they pursued.
They wanted to embrace “a new way of living. The Bloomsbury Group celebrated sexual equality and freedom, feeling that every person had the right to live and love in the way that they chose”.
Their position in society sheltered them from the ruin that would have faced lesser mortals.
2020 sees their rooms admired and their status as cultural icons confirmed.
M 2020
December 31, 2019
Rooms Of Their Own (2018)
La torre di Knole di Eddy Sackville-West, Monk's House di Virginia Woolf e il castello di Sissinghurst di Vita Sackville-West sono analizzati in relazione alla personalità, la biografia e le conoscenze di chi le ha abitate e arredate. Le fotografie a corredo del testo, anche d'epoca, sono molto belle e aiutano a contestualizzare gli ambienti e le relazioni.
Mi affascina tantissimo il gruppo di Bloomsbury, sono alla ricerca del libro perfetto che analizzi tutti i componenti e i legami familiari e sentimentali.
La torre di Knole di Eddy Sackville-West, Monk's House di Virginia Woolf e il castello di Sissinghurst di Vita Sackville-West sono analizzati in relazione alla personalità, la biografia e le conoscenze di chi le ha abitate e arredate. Le fotografie a corredo del testo, anche d'epoca, sono molto belle e aiutano a contestualizzare gli ambienti e le relazioni.
Mi affascina tantissimo il gruppo di Bloomsbury, sono alla ricerca del libro perfetto che analizzi tutti i componenti e i legami familiari e sentimentali.
March 12, 2019
Un volume sicuramente da comodino, da sfogliare e ammirare. Ho trovato molto interessante esplorare le vite di queste 3 grandi personalità, Virginia Woolf, Eddy e Vita Sackville-West, attraverso le loro dimore e il loro modo di decorarle. Molto bello dal punto di vista estetico, ho trovato le fotografie spettacolari!
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