Volume 39, Number 19 · November 19, 1992
Love in a Cold Climate
By Robert Craft
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
edited by Nigel Nicolson
Putnam, 452 pp., $29.95
The celebrityhood of Victoria Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, 'Vita and Harold' in the British television series recently shown on US prime time, falls well below that of Di and Charles but is richer in both prurient and intellectual interest than that of the younger combatants. The present selection of the correspondence has been condemned for snobbery. But not to worry: most of it is too far away to be hurtful, and much can be enjoyed as unconsciously comical.
Review, 2704 words
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