PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE

[Alexandria North]

Has anyone here read PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE by Nigel Nicholson (sp?)?
I just finished watching Masterpiece Theater's presentation of the British
miniseries, based on this biography, and enjoyed it very much. However, I
missed the first 40 minutes of part 1, and would like to learn the
beginning. I thought I'd read the book to fill in the gaps.

Any comments?
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"Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies?
But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them."
-- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind

[Francis Muir]

Alexandria North writes:

Has anyone here read PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE by Nigel Nicholson?

I just finished watching Masterpiece Theater's presentation of
the British miniseries, based on this biography, and enjoyed it
very much. However, I missed the first 40 minutes of part 1, and
would like to learn the beginning. I thought I'd read the book
to fill in the gaps.

Any comments?

Victoria Mary Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson were married for over
forty years, and during this time wrote over ten thousand letters to each
other. Think on it. From a rather small portion of this correspondence
their second son, Nigel Nicholson, constructed the biography you have
mentioned above, and from an even smaller portion of this biography did
Penelope Mortimer produce the TV soap of the same name. I thought that
it was pretty gruesome myself, but there's no accounting for taste. More
to the point, there has just come out a selection of their letters covering
all their years together and edited, of course, by the Young Niggle. Since
their letters were their chief, perhaps their only means of communication,
*Vita & Harold* makes fascinating and quite touching reading. This is the
book to read.

Fido

[Alexandria North]

In article <1992Aug4.0...@morrow.stanford.edu> fra...@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:
>Alexandria North writes:
>
> Has anyone here read PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE by Nigel Nicholson?
> I just finished watching Masterpiece Theater's presentation of
> the British miniseries, based on this biography, and enjoyed it
> very much. However, I missed the first 40 minutes of part 1, and
> would like to learn the beginning. I thought I'd read the book
> to fill in the gaps.
>
> Any comments?
>
>Victoria Mary Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson were married for over
>forty years, and during this time wrote over ten thousand letters to each
>other. Think on it. From a rather small portion of this correspondence
>their second son, Nigel Nicholson, constructed the biography you have
>mentioned above, and from an even smaller portion of this biography did
>Penelope Mortimer produce the TV soap of the same name. I thought that
>it was pretty gruesome myself, but there's no accounting for taste. More

Out of curiosity, what did you find gruesome about it? I found it touching.

Alix