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Pepita: Vita Sackville-West
Pepita: Vita Sackville-West
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Pepita tell the extraordinary story first of Vita Sackville-West's grandmother, Josefa Duran, and then of her mother Victoria. Josefa, the half-gypsy daughter of an old-clothes peddler from Malaga, makes her fortune as a dancer in Madrid; soon she is 'the Star of Andalusia' and the toast of all Europe. When she becomes the devoted, though not invariably faithful, mistress of a young English attaché, the stage is set for a most bizarre family history. After her early death the story become that of their daughter Victoria. Condemned to an austere convent until the age of eighteen, socially ostracized without knowing why, Victoria is suddenly whisked off to Washington, where she becomes the mistress of her diplomat father's household. Eventually this illegitimate half-Spanish waif becomes the mistress of Knole, one of the grandest houses in England. Volatile and wayward, she exercises power and charm in equal measure on all who know her, her life 'a mixture of tragedy and sheer fun'.
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Autobiography/Bio/Non-Fiction, Hardback; 4th reprint of 1st edition 1938; gift inscription on front paste-down in pencil; previous owner's name on free front endpaper; tightly bound and clean withinShare
