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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.
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?
4 days ago · 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.
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.
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).
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.
