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Vita Sackville-West. 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 · March 31, 2020. Arts & Culture. 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?
Apr 5, 2024 · spouse Sir Harold Nicolson. 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. She was the daughter of the 3rd Baron Sackville and a granddaughter of Pepita, a Spanish ...
Aug 23, 2019 · August 23, 2019 7:00 AM EDT. “I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia…It is incredible how essential to me you have become,” wrote Vita Sackville-West to the novelist Virginia Woolf in 1926....
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.
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.
Victoria (Vita) Mary Sackville-West (1892-1962) was a prolific fiction writer, prize-winning poet, and gardener. Her husband, Harold Nicolson, was a diplomat and important diarist. Their younger son Nigel Nicolson also became a writer, as did his son Adam. The Sackville-Wests and Nicolsons were involved in the activities of the National Trust ...
