Pieces of a statue which Vita Sackville-West gave to her husband and lover Woolf are set to be displayed in a new exhibition.The celebrated writer and gardener gathered the fragments when visiting the ruins of the ancient palace of Persepolis in what is now in 1927.She gave one to her husband Harold Nicholson and the other to author Woolf, but when the lesbian lovers fell out, she referred to it as 'that paperweight' as it came to represent the 'ruin' of their relationship.
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