All Passion Spent (VMC)

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We meet Lady Slane, who has lived her adult life as the dutiful wife of a powerful politician and a respectable mother. Remake of the 1961 Disney comedy about separated identical twins who meet at camp, change places and hatch a plot to reunite their divorced parents. After almost seventy years of conforming to every wish of her just-deceased husband, she decides to live her remaining years to her own liking, “calm of mind, all passion spent. This is a novel which confounds the stereotypical portrayals of older people often found in literature.

And so they put another set of expectations in train, believing their dutiful mother will see the merits of the plan.Heart failure,” they said sagaciously, though they were actually quoting from the papers; and then added with a sigh, “Well, another old landmark gone. Here she recollects the dreams of youth, and revels in her newfound freedom with her odd assortment of companions: Genoux, her French maid; Mr.

The poet, novelist, and gardener Vita Sackville-West was not yet forty when she wrote her novel, All Passion Spent, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press in 1931 and reissued by Virago in 1983. Part 2, shorter than the others, is composed of Lady Slane's thoughts as she muses in the summer sun. Lady Deborah Slane only discovers the independence VSW maintained after the death of her husband, Henry Holland, as she casts back upon her life in Part Two, the beautiful and thoughtful heart of the novel.

All Passion Spent shows that with physical freedom comes the freedom to explore the past and make sense of the world. I re-read this one a little while ago, and here’s my review if you’re interested https://librofulltime. After 6 decades of marriage and a long and storied career in English politics and diplomacy, Henry Holland first Earl of Slane has died. This work by Karen Heenan-Davies, and/or BookTalk and Booker Talk blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.

Some of her musings made me a bit sad, such as thinking back on her husband and children as 'obstacles' that kept her from her true self.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. An acquaintance from Lady Slane's distant past as Vicereine of India, millionaire by inheritance, lover of beauty and fine art. It makes this reader, at least, almost eager to be eighty-eight, when one can at last step aside and meditate on the life that has been lived.