{"product_id":"a-home-of-her-own-the-houses-and-gardens-of-vita-sackville-west","title":"A Home of Her Own: The Houses and Gardens of Vita Sackville-West","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA literary, horticultural, and personal tour of the legendary writer and gardener\u0026amp;rsquo;s houses and gardens, the places that gave her work and her life a vital sense of self.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in 1892 at Knole, a Jacobean palace and treasure house, Vita died seventy years later at Sissinghurst, where she had created one of England\u0026amp;rsquo;s loveliest and most celebrated gardens. Throughout her life, she lived in extraordinary places, fascinated and inspired by their histories. An obsession with her ancestry and with Knole\u0026amp;mdash;the monumental house in which she grew up\u0026amp;mdash;remained central throughout her life but which, as a woman and therefore inhibited by the law of the land, she had been prevented from inheriting. Immediately after her father\u0026amp;rsquo;s death Vita left Knole forever, moving to Long Barn, just a couple of miles away. This new house, like Knole, albeit on a fraction of the scale, was an amalgam of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. Vita and her husband, Harold Nicolson, called the house and garden their \u0026amp;ldquo;little mud pie,\u0026amp;rdquo; and it became the site of Vita\u0026amp;rsquo;s first major foray into garden design. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLater, Vita, Harold, and their two young sons, moved to Sissinghurst, where they transformed a ruined castle and a tumbledown farm into the garden it is today: arguably her greatest creation and most enduring legacy. Vita\u0026amp;rsquo;s glorious residences\u0026amp;mdash;both inside and out\u0026amp;mdash;are a key to her identity. Images in the book\u0026amp;mdash;including many never-published period photographs and rich, new works\u0026amp;mdash;illustrate her dazzling world. The two authors, both members of her family, offer their unique perspective into the life and passions of a twentieth-century iconoclast.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rizzoli","offers":[{"title":"US - Hardback","offer_id":49727936168163,"sku":"DTRRZUS-9780847878130","price":520.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780847878130.jpg?v=1789297351","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/products\/a-home-of-her-own-the-houses-and-gardens-of-vita-sackville-west","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}