Today I am featured on the OxfordWords blog, which is now very well managed by our own lovely Simon. I wrote about Vita Sackville-West, as it is her birthday this week. 121 years young!
If you’ve never read any Vita, you’re missing out. My favorite of her books so far is All Passion Spent; a more perfect evocation of the waste of Victorian womanhood would be impossible to find. If I get a snow day tomorrow, I’m going to curl up with a Vita I’ve had sitting on my pile for a long while; English Country Houses. I’m hoping it will give me some inspiration for places to visit during the Easter holidays – if it’s not snowing, that is!
