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In 1913, she married diplomat Harold Nicolson and traveled extensively before settling in 1930 at Sissinghurst Castle, where she designed a world-famous garden. The adaptation of Vita Sackville-West's novel stars Wendy Hiller as Lady Slane, an elderly woman whose husband dies. Thank you for pushing me to read All Passion Spent, it was a very enjoyable experience – which you will see in a few days has spread into a third post. It is a lovely book [and so is the DVD], sensitive, moving and amusing -- amazingly written by Vita Sackville-West when she was only 38.

Some of her musings made me a bit sad, such as thinking back on her husband and children as 'obstacles' that kept her from her true self. Henry Lyulph Holland, first Earl of Slane, had existed for so long that the public had begun to regard him as immortal. Lady Slane distributes her jewelry, her only private asset, with little regard as to fairness; rather she seems faintly amused at the egotistical frailties this gesture reveals among her offspring and their spouses. The elderly and eccentric owner and agent of Lady Slane's cottage, who forms an understanding and regular friendship with Lady Slane. I am merely a reader, a consumer of books for amusement and personal instruction, not a professional reviewer - and that is indeed a worthy profession, an important literary craft - so these posts are merely meant to be one person's reading responses, not scholarly reviews.I loved the scenes where Lady Slane and her young (er) friend Mr Fitz-George stroll slowly on Hampstead Heath, stopping frequently because they’re tired (though they pretend they want to admire the view). I’d read lots of it, at university, but I didn’t really have a language to talk about it though I must have written essays about it or I wouldn’t have passed with high distinctions.

The focus at the moment seems to be children’s literature which isn’t of great interest for me but I’ll watch with interest what theme they come up with next. Among them is Mr FitzGeorge, an eccentric millionaire who met her in India, when she was very young and very lovely? Platitudes such as 'step out of your comfort zone' are so prevalent, we tend to take them on board as dogma without ever thinking about them. In the first, Lady Slane comes downstairs from viewing for the last time the body of her husband to find her four horrible older children have determined that mother is too vague to live on her own and that they will do their duty, and they may need to be recompensed, by letting her live with each of them a few months at a time. I love that authors try to tell other people what kind of book we’re reading, as if we’ve no right to say anything about our own reading experiences.This work by Karen Heenan-Davies, and/or BookTalk and Booker Talk blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.

For a short while we view this scene through the eyes of Edith, the youngest, who may have been an interesting character in her own right, but this is almost the last we see of her. Page is Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Emerita, at the University of Florida. Considered a companion to friend and lover Virginia Woolf s A Room of One s Own (1929), All Passion Spent is more a rejection of feminism, instead an avowal of choice for all. There are flashbacks to her earlier life and perceptive thoughts about women's freedom -- or lack of -- during this period.After almost seventy years of conforming to every wish of her just-deceased husband, she decides to live her remaining years to her own liking, “calm of mind, all passion spent.

Kay lives alone with his collection of astrolabes and instruments; his only friend is Mr FitzGeorge. He was a former Prime Minister and Viceroy of India with an illustrious list of achievements and excellent reputation. This is a thought-provoking story for anyone who wants to give themselves permission to live a simple, humble, contemplative life. After a lifetime of doing what society expects of her, she makes a decision to retire from the public eye and live in a small house, out of the spotlight.She has been the dutiful wife of a "great man" in public life, Viceroy of India and a member of the House of Lords. She published eight novels in addition to her masterpiece Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, for which she made several trips to the Balkans.

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