All Passion Spent: Vita Sackville-WestIn 1860, as a young girl of 17, Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambition to become an artist. Instead, she becomes, the wife of a great statesman and the mother of six children. Seventy years later, released by widowhood, and to the dismay of her pompous children, she abandons the family home for a tiny house in Hampstead. Here she recollects the dreams of youth, and revels in her newfound freedom with her odd assortment of companions: Genoux,