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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 (born March 9, 1892, Knole, Kent, England—died June 2, 1962, Sissinghurst Castle, Kent) was an English novelist and poet who wrote chiefly about the Kentish countryside, where she spent most of her life.
Mar 31, 2020 · Vita Sackville-West. 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?
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.
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. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry during her lifetime, including The Land…
Vita became increasingly reclusive as the Second World War began, and spent her last decades ensconced at Sissinghurst, writing novels and gardening books in its famous tower and creating the splendour of its gardens.
Jul 28, 2016 · Four years after the end of her turbulent decade-long romance with Violet Trefusis, the English poet, novelist, and landscape designer Vita Sackville-West became intensely infatuated with Virginia Woolf, ten years her senior.
