Vita came to own her own house and live there when she was twenty-six. Her mother had died a few years before and when her father died it was expected that she would stay in the large family home with her brother and his family. She was lucky to have inherited from her mother so had a little money of her own, enough to buy a modest house and give her a reasonable income for life. Her brother and his wife were anxious that she should remain with them as she was still of marriageable age and considered 'a good catch' but with her father's death she saw the opportunity to begin the life she wanted.
She moved to Parkside and is still in the process of getting her house finished.
She sketches and paints water colours, plays the piano as do most of her peers but, unlike many of them, she has a deep and genuine interest in 'the arts'. She loves music and theatre and the exciting new movements in art and design (and women's politics). Fragments of her house reflect this. It is a very modern house in its choice of light colours - a real break away from her former Victorian family home.
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