文档介绍：No Signposts in the Sea
(excerpts)
海上无路标(节选)
By Vita Sackville-West
Group Member
Materials:
金贵阳熊媛媛代青秀李晓念刘忻
龚晓丽代璐璐孙敏毛亚停钟玮
田郸琦蒲彦君钟晓园张婷君肖谧
Exhibitors:
刘忻田郸琦代璐璐
ⅠⅡAbout the Author
Vita Sackville-West 薇塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特
一. Brief introduction
An English poet and novelist.
二. Something in detail
Early life
born at Knole House in Sevenoaks Kent in
1892 .
the only child of Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville and his wife Victoria Sackville-West, who were cousins.
the daughter of the 3rd Baron Sackville.
educated at home.
Marriage
In 1913, at age 21, married the 27 year-old diplomat and journalist Harold e Nicolson.
The couple had an open marriage. Both Sackville-West and her husband had consecutive same-sex relations.
But these were no impediments(障碍) to a true closeness between Sackville-West and Nicolson.
The couple had two children:
Benedict, born in 1914, an art historian,
Nigel, born in 1917, a well known editor, politician, and writer.
Affairs and Bisexuality (双性恋)
Rosamund Grosvenor
first real friend ---Rosamund Grosvenor (London, England, September 1888-30 June 1944), who was 4 years Vita’s senior.
Vita met Rosamund at Miss Woolf‘s school in 1899, when Rosamund had been invited to cheer Vita up while her father was fighting in the Boer war(布尔战争) (1899-1902年英国人与布尔人的战争)
Rosamund and Vita later shared a governess for their morning lessons. Vita fell in love with Rosamund, whom she called 'Roddie' or 'Rose' or 'the Rubens lady'. Rosamund, in turn, was equally enchanted with Vita.
Violet Trefusis
Novelist Violet Trefusis, (daughter of the Hon. e Keppel. ) --- the same-sex relationship that had the deepest and most lasting effect on Sackville-West's personal life. They first met when Vita Sackville-West was 12 and Violet was 10.
Both married, she and Trefusis had eloped(私奔) several times from 1918 on, mostly to France, where Sackville-West would dress as a young man when they went out.
Vita's novel Challenge also