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The odd bit of rain never hurt anyone (in a breathable, three- layer waterproof anorak) You've heard of Gore-Tex - but do you know how it works? Alex Wade explains the mysteries of the fabrics that promise to get you home dry
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Many years ago, when I thought things like waterproof jackets
didn't matter, I set off for a month-long trek in south-west
Tasmania. It was an intrepid venture, entailing an air-drop of
supplies at the halfway point, and I look back on the trip with fond
memories. Beautiful, uncharted terrain, temperate rainforest
stretching to the Southern Ocean, wombats and even a Tasmanian devil:
it was all wonderful. Except for one thing.
Every time it rained, I got soaked through. It rains a lot in
Tassie, and the thin blue nylon jacket I had chosen was next to
useless. Back then, there wasn't a lot of ...
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Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf.
Magazine article from: College Literature
; ...apt, however, that "Vita" comes first in the...and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf...secondary to that of Sackville-West. In her preface...subversive punishment of Vita Sackville-West, the Orlando of the...
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Orlando as a woman.(Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
; ...Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West by Karyn Z. Sproles University...was a fictional biography of Vita Sackville-West. Instead of Orlando dressing...the profound influence of Vita Sackville-West, the book became a new and...
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Gypsies and lesbian desire: Vita Sackville-West, Violet Trefusis, and Virginia Woolf.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature
; ...be equally strange and equally real. --Sackville-West to Woolf, Letters 54 When Vita Sackville-West tries to persuade Virginia Woolf to run...and the free expression of sexuality. Sackville-West's fantasy of homelessness among...
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Archive of writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West to be auctioned
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...0000 Dateline: LONDON The literary archive of Vita Sackville-West, spanning her career as writer, gardener and broadcaster...pages, including unpublished poems written when Sackville-West was just 11, is being sold by her son, Nigel Nicholson...
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"I miss you oh so much".('The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf')
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
; The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia woolf Edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell Leaska...pages, $29.95 (orig. published by Morrow, 1985) VITA Sackville-West, the British author of All Passion Spent (1931) and The Edwardians...
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Meeting Vita.(gardener and author Victoria Sackville-West)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Victoria
; ...chance meeting with famed novelist and gardener Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson not only provided...Sissinghurst gardens in Kent, designed by Victoria Sackville-West, whose gardening column I followed every week in...
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Vita: a biography of Vita Sackville-West.
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...biography of Rebecca West, which suggests her...intellectuals and artists. In Vita she had a difficult task...Vita (nee Victoria) Sackville-West was born nine years before...literary residue of Vita Sackville-West's life is plentiful...
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An imperfect view of marriage. (television program 'Portrait of a Marriage' about Vita Sackville-West's bisexual lifestyle) (Column)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News
; ...idyllic, nearly 50-year union between Vita Sackville-West, a lesbian and daughter of Lord Sackville, and Sir Harold Nicolson, a homosexual...the wave of the future? Who knows? But Vita, a literary lady, certainly thought so...
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Review: Virginia Woolf, my mother's lover The passionate affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West scandalised inter- war society. In this extract from his new book, Nigel Nicolson, then a small boy on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group, describes how the two women became lovers
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Virginia Woolf and my mother, Vita Sackville-West, met in December 1922, but it...with the art critic Clive Bell - Vita invited Virginia to dinner with...arrived. Went on to see Mama [Lady Sackville], my head swimming with Virginia...
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Desiring women; the partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...Desiring women; the partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Sproles, Karyn Z. U. of Toronto Pr. 2006 242...the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West as reciprocal, in opposition to previous ideas...
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