All Passion Spent (VMC)

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Sitting there in the sun at Hampstead, in the late summer, under the south wall and the ripened peaches, doing nothing with her hands, she remembered the day she had become engaged to Henry. First Edition, on laid paper; pale green cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Herbert, Carrie, Charles and William are stiff with disapproval; only the awkward family outsider Edith has an inkling that her mother might have more backbone and brain than the others realize; while Kay is most keenly interested in distancing himself from any conflict or fuss; he enjoys his bachelor existence in his flat crowded with his collection of compasses and astrolabes.

The young genius, taunted by his critics as a Cockney, who died at twenty-five but produced some of the most memorable poems in the language, might seem like an odd choice to highlight the life of an ancient aristocrat, but Keats’s meditations on mortality and memory are even more intense because of his youth. All Passion Spent echoes some of Sackville-West's primary concerns: [2] people's place in society, society's constrictions on people, and women's control of their lives.All Passion Spent' is one of Sackville-West's best known novels, addressing women's control over their lives. Bucktrout, the agent for the house, who felt privileged to come to tea every Tuesday afternoon, and as many times in between as the occasion permitted.

I also found the blog site of one of their contributors – she has a blog with a particular focus on this theme – might be of interest to you https://www.The great peace that came to her, “sitting there in the sun at Hamstead, in the late summer, under the south wall and the ripened peaches” steals into the heart of the reader.