News about Michael Carney

Hilda Matheson, a BBC executive, wrote letters to Vita Sackville-West (pictured), the 36-year-old poet and novelist who later planted a stunning garden in Sissinghurst, Kent, who later created a stunning garden. All in total, there are more than 100 letters, each carefully packaged in its date-stamped envelope. Not only do they document their raging clandestine affair, but they also shed new light on two of the twentieth century's most fascinating women.