When Lady Slane was young, she nurtured a secret, burning
ambition: to become an artist. She became, instead, the dutiful
wife of a great statesman, and mother to six children. In her
widowhood she finally defies her family. Her children, all over
sixty, have planned for her to spend her remaining days quietly, as
a paying guest of each of them in turn. Much to their dismay, Lady
Slane rents a small house in Hampstead and chooses to live
independently, free from her past. She revels in her new-found
freedom, living the life she forfeited seventy years earlier to the
conventions of a Victorian marriage, and attracts an odd assortment
of companions. Among them is Mr FitzGeorge, an eccentric
millionaire who met her in India, when she was very young and very
lovely?.?.?. First published in 1931, All Passion Spent is the
fictional companion to her friend Virginia Woolf''s A Room of One''s
Own.
關於作者:
Vita Sackville-West 1892-1962 was born and educated at
Knole. She and her husband Harold Nicolson created the famous
garden at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent.
目錄:
Introduction by Joanna Lumley
Part One
Part Two
Part Three