A01=Jane Wellesley
Author_Jane Wellesley
Bloomsbury
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forthcoming
HogarthPress
literary
poetry
poets
relationship
Sackville-West
Wellington
women
Woolf
Product details
- ISBN 9781806491643
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 20 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Dorothy Wellesley was a poet, traveller, heiress and rebel. When she became the lover of Vita Sackville-West, it wrecked her marriage to the future Duke of Wellington. Through Vita, Dorothy met Virginia Woolf and gained a unique view of the iconic and intensely self-absorbed Bloomsbury Group.
W.B. Yeats hailed her as one of the most talented poets of her generation. She was his intimate friend in his final years and his muse. Yet despite being a writer, editor and champion of poetry throughout her life, she ranks highly among the most overlooked women poets of the 20th century.
This intimate biography draws on unpublished material, including private Wellesley family papers and hitherto unknown source material, to create a riveting story of love, secret friendships and betrayal. Unconventional, reckless and often vulnerable, Dorothy Wellesley was a woman ahead of her time.
Jane Wellesley is a writer and producer. Before starting a long career in the television and film industry, she worked in the art world. She then worked at the BBC and later was a researcher at Granada TV. She became an independent producer, firstly running Antelope Films, then jointly running and owning Warner Sisters Film and TV until 2002.
Her first book, Wellington: a Journey Through My Family, was published in 2008 and re-issued in 2015 for the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo.
