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All Passion Spent (Virago Modern Classics)
All Passion Spent - Virago Modern Classics Author:Vita Sackville-West In 1860, as an unmarried girl of seventeen, Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambition - to become an artist. She becomes, instead, the wife of a great statesman, Henry, First Earl of Slane, and the mother of six children. Seventy years later, released by widowhood, she abandons the family home in Elm Park Gardens much to the dismay of her... more » pompous sons and daughters. Retiring to a tiny house in Hampstead she recollects the dreams of youth and enjoys the mellow present in the company of those she has chosen. Lady Slane finds at last - in this world of her own - a passion, one that comes with the freedom to choose; this, her greatest gift, she passes on to the only one who can undertand is value.« less