Nigel Nicolson wrote biography, memoir and publishing history, often drawing on the literary and political circles into which he was born. Portrait of a Marriage uses diaries and family papers to reconstruct the unconventional marriage of his parents, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, including Vita’s relationships with women and the partnership that nevertheless held the household together. Nicolson also wrote on diplomacy, politics and family history and helped establish the publishing house Weidenfeld & Nicolson. His prose is clear and documentary, combining intimate family material with historical context. Portrait of a Marriage remains the key book for readers interested in Bloomsbury-adjacent literary life, queer history and the Sackville-West–Nicolson family. Read more Less
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