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Portrait of a Marriage is a British television miniseries detailing the real-life love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel, as well as the strength of Vita's enduring marriage to the diplomat Harold Nicolson.
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Based on a true story, this 1990 TV series follows the passionate affair between Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel in post-World War I England. The series explores the challenges and consequences of their forbidden love, as well as the impact on their husbands and families.
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- 1992-07-19
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Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson is the 1973 biography of writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West compiled by her son Nigel Nicolson from her journals and letters.
Nov 1, 1998 · In PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE, Vita works out her own feelings about her just concluding affair with Violet Trefusis, an impassioned three-year romp through England and over Europe that came within a hare's breath of ruining her marriage; that would have sunk any ordinary marriage if not for upper class social convention (ironically, what she and ...
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- Nigel Nicolson
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- University of Chicago Press
Based on a true story, this miniseries follows the turbulent marriage of writer Vita Sackville-West and diplomat Harold Nicolson, who faced a scandal when she had an affair with novelist Violet Keppel. Watch the full episodes and trailers on TV Guide.
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With Janet McTeer, David Haig, Cathryn Harrison, Diana Fairfax. In 1940 England, feminist poet Vita Sackville-West gets a phone call from Violet Keppel Trefusis which triggers a flashback to 1917 where Violet first came for a visit at Vita's country house.
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Jan 1, 2001 · The story of Sackville-West's marriage to Harold Nicolson is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, their son Nigel combines his mother's memoir with his own explanations and what he learned from their many letters.
