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Sackville-West, Vita (Victoria Mary) (1892–1962)

English writer. Her novels include The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931); she also wrote the long pastoral poem The Land (1926). The fine gardens around her home at Sissinghurst, Kent, were created by her and her husband Harold Nicolson.

Virginia Woolf was a close friend and based the novel Orlando (1928) on her.

Sackville-West was born at Knole, Kent, the daughter of the 3rd Baron Sackville. She was educated privately and began writing as a child. Knole and the Sackvilles 1922 describes her ancestral home and family. With her husband, she travelled to the Middle East, writing an account in Passenger to Teheran in 1926. Her fiction includes the novels Heritage (1919) and The Dark Island (1934); and a collection of short stories, The Heir (1922). She also wrote biographies of, among others, Aphra Behn (1927), Andrew Marvell (1929), Saint Joan (1936), and her grandmother, the Spanish dancer Pepita (1937); and also The Eagle and the Dove: St Theresa of Avila, St Thérèse of Lisieux (1943). Volumes of verse are The King's Daughter (1930), Collected Poems (1933), Solitude (1938), and The Garden (1946). Portrait of a Marriage (1973) by her son Nigel Nicolson (1917– ) describes the unorthodox married life of his parents.
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Byline: Elizabeth Shaheen One of the most celebrated naturalistic white gardens was created by Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst in Kent, England.
Nature's work of art.. by Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain)
Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais, the poet Thom Gunn and his houseful of committed partners--well, what we've always been is inventive, resourceful, and alive to the many ways it's possible to be together, to make a life.
Why do "I do"? Poet and memoirist Mark Doty didn't want to marry his ... by Doty, Mark / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
In 1922, when modernism was demolishing all the old narrative certainties, Vita Sackville-West wrote of her ancestral home, Knole of some very old woman who has always been beautiful, who has had many lovers and seen many generations come and go … It is above all an English home … It has the tone of England; it melts into the green of the garden turf, into the tawnier green of the park beyond, into the blue of the pale English sky.
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