Pepita
Book Details
| Title: | Pepita | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1937 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. | ||||||||||
| Tags: | biography, non-fiction | ||||||||||
| Description: | Pepita tells the extraordinary story of Vita Sackville-West’s grandmother Josefa (Pepita) in Part I, and her mother Victoria in Part II. Josefa, the half-gypsy daughter of an old-clothes pedlar from Malaga, makes her fortune as a dancer in Madrid; soon she is the toast of all Europe. Her affair with a young English attache then sets the scene for a most bizarre family history. After her early death, her daughter Victoria is condemned to an austere convent until the age of eighteen. Socially ostracized without knowing why, she is suddenly whisked off to become mistress of her diplomat father’s Washington household. Eventually this illegitimate half-Spanish waif finds herself the volatile and wayward mistress of Knole, one of the grandest houses in England. Vita Sackville-West’s fascination with this unlikely inheritance brings her two subjects vividly to life—the wild and mysterious Pepita, and the adored yet impossible Victoria.—Goodreads.com. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 409 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 196  |
Author Bio for Sackville-West, Vita (Victoria Mary)
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 1892-1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf.—Wikipedia
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