ABSTRACT
We have already seen that Freud was sufficiently interested in Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson to read their best-known novels. Information about their stable and ultimately happy marital relationship permitting homosexual liaisons by both partners will have reached him through Ernest Jones and made him curious about the inner life conveyed in their literary work; but both novels introduced him to facets of British social and political life which he could not have derived from previous forays into English literature.
