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Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer. Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist.
Jun 3, 2024 · Vita Sackville-West was an English novelist and poet who wrote chiefly about the Kentish countryside, where she spent most of her life. She was the daughter of the 3rd Baron Sackville and a granddaughter of Pepita, a Spanish dancer, whose story she told in Pepita (1937).
Aug 23, 2019 · The new movie 'Vita & Virginia' depicts the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Here's the true story behind their love affair.
Mar 31, 2020 · How preposterous is it that Vita Sackville-West, the best-selling bisexual baroness who wrote over thirty-five books that made an ingenious mockery of twenties societal norms, should be remembered today merely as a smoocher of Virginia Woolf?
Mar 9, 2016 · Vita Sackville-West, born on this day in 1892, and Virginia Woolf exchanged the letters below in January 1926. The two began an affair in the midtwenties that inspired Woolf’s novel Orlando. These letters came after their first separation; their affair ended in 1929.
Vita Sackville-West. 1892–1962. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. British novelist, poet, and gardener Victoria Mary Sackville-West was raised at her family’s ancestral estate, Knole, in Kent. In her poetry, she often engaged themes of natural life and romantic love.
Jun 15, 2018 · Vita Sackville-West (March 9, 1892 – June 2, 1962), was a British poet, novelist, and garden designer. Born at Knole Park, a 365-room ancestral home, her writing career was launched with the publication of Poems of East and West (1917). She’s known for her private life and as a master gardener perhaps as much as her literature.
