Portrait of a Marriage

  • Premiered: Sep 1990
  • Episodes: 4
  • Followers: 2
  • Ended
  • BBC
  • Wednesday at 20
  • Drama History Mini-series Romance

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Season 1
1x1
Episode 1
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 19, 1990
In 1940 England, feminist poet Vita Sackville-West gets a phone call from Violet Keppel Trefusis which triggers a flashback to 1917 where Violet first came for a visit at Vita's country house.
1x2
Episode 2
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 26, 1990
Vita and Violet's romance grows which leads to Vita dressing up as a man (an injured soldier on leave from the front) and meeting at hotels and boarding houses in London to continue their romantic tryst.
1x3
Episode 3
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 03, 1990
With the end of World War I in 1918, Vita returns to her family home to her husband and sons. However, she continues to write and correspond with Violet, who is still being courted by .. show full overview
1x4 Show finale
Episode 4
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 10, 1990
In 1921, Violet is unhappy with her celibate marital life. Vita manages to get in touch with her to persuade her to leave her husband and run away with her, first to Paris and then to Greece where they can live out a life together.

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