Vita Sackville-West

Discoveries

2011-07-31 00:00:00

East of the West A Country in Stories Miroslav Penkov Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 226 pp., $24 Miroslav Penkov hit American shores in 2001 (he was 21) from his native Bulgaria, and he hasn't stopped writing (or winning prizes for his wild, homesick...

Beauty abounds at Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent, England

2010-06-27 00:00:00

"Everybody knows Kent," Charles Dickens wrote in "The Pickwick Papers," "apples, cherries, hops and women." Almost 175 years after publication of "Papers," Kent, just 50 miles south of London, is still known as the garden of England and the larder of...

'A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families' by Michael Holroyd

2009-03-23 00:00:00

When Michael Holroyd takes on a subject, you know his sweep will be wide. This is not to say that he forfeits depth -- far from it -- but rather that he puts things in the fullest possible context. His groundbreaking biography of Lytton Strachey more than...

Just add tea and crumpets

2005-06-23 00:00:00

Few phrases are more magical than "English garden." The words conjure visions at once settled and unconstrained: cool emerald vistas, buxom clumps of lilies and larkspurs, rose petals spilling from a tree-hugging vine. Caught in their spell, desert...

Your private moonlit haven

2004-10-14 00:00:00

There's a moment in the garden when everything changes. It happens quietly, slowly, without fanfare. It doesn't demand attention, and, like the silently unfurling bud of a flower, it's easily — and often — ignored. Neighboring jackhammers...

Garden tours in high style

2005-01-30 00:00:00

Stroll through the Chelsea Flower Show, one of the world's oldest and most popular, during a garden tour of England. The 10-day May 18 tour will visit formal and classically structured landscape gardens as well as more intimate ones. May is one of the...

Try this trio of dark tales from across the water

2011-08-16 08:37:00

Even the stereotypically cold, damp weather of Britain can sound divine next to Maryland's blistering summer temperatures. But as the following three dark British tales make clear, the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the pond. "A Book...

Remarkable Person: Arlene K. Hoffman

2011-07-10 00:00:00

Arlene K. Hoffman was a "Mad Woman" in the twilight of the "Mad Men" era, rising in just six years to head her own agency. Some of the ad campaigns she spearheaded became cultural touchstones: the Dannon commercial starring 100-year-old Russians; the...

'Orlando' at Court Theatre: 'Orlando' is too trapped in its visual moments

2011-03-22 04:32:29

Mrs. Dalloway

1998-02-19 00:00:00

Friday February 20, 1998 ��There comes a moment with some women when you know they will be beautiful always. These are women whose inner glow and carriage are not dependent upon youth. ��Even if you've had this feeling about Vanessa Redgrave...

The writer's best-known book, "Portrait of a Marriage," was a biography of his unconventional parents, Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West.

2004-09-28 18:09:28