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    A Note of Explanation: An Undiscovered Story from Queen Mary's Dollhouse
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    A Note of Explanation: An Undiscovered Story from Queen Mary's Dollhouse

    By Vita Sackville-West and Kate Baylay

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    A Note of Explanation is a previously unknown work by iconic writer Vita Sackville-West. Written in 1922, it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary's dollhouse in Windsor Castle. Witty and stylish, the story recounts the antics of a time-traveling sprite who inhabits the dollhouse. This illustrated ebook edition presents the story for the first time since 1924. Lovers of literature and history will rejoice in this irresistible one-of-a-kind ebook.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateJul 24, 2018
    ISBN9781452170046
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    A Note of Explanation: An Undiscovered Story from Queen Mary's Dollhouse
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    Vita Sackville-West

    Vita Sackville-West was an English author and poet who is best known for her novels The Edwardians and All Passions Spent, and is notable as the only author to twice win the prestigious Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature (in 1926 for The Land and in 1933 for Collected Poems.) Sackville-West and her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson, also a writer, had an open marriage, and her passionate relationship with author Virginia Woolf served as the inspiration for Woolf's Orlando. A member of the British peerage, Sackville-West led a life that could have inspired Julian Fellowes's Downton Abbey, as she was forced to relinquish her family's estate, Knole, upon her father’s death. Sackville-West died in 1962.

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