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Novels of British writer Victoria Mary Sackville-West, known as Vita, include The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931). This prolific English author, poet, and memoirist in the early 20th century lived not so privately. While married to the diplomat Harold Nicolson, she conducted a series of scandalous amorous liaisons with many women, including the brilliant Virginia Woolf.
510 ratings60 reviews. The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life, her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf, and ...
After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West, a British novelist married to diplomat Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf began an intense and passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf's death in 1941. In their correspondence, the women leave no aspect of their lives untouched: they record daily dramas, bits of gossip, the strains and pleasures of writing, and their mutual joy in each ...
9 de mar. de 2022 · Married Name: Victoria Mary Nicolson. Self-constructed Name: Julian Sackville-West. Self-constructed Name: David Sackville-West. Styled: the Honourable Victoria Mary Sackville-West. VSW wrote prolifically and almost obsessively from her childhood in the early twentieth century. She began with poems, plays, and fiction about her family's ...
And all the little homes of man. Rise to a dimmer, nobler span; When colour's absence gives escape. To the deeper spirit of the shape, — Then earth's great architecture swells. Among her mountains and her fells. Under the moon to amplitude. Massive and primitive and rude: — Then do the clouds like silver flags.
Vita ( Victoria ) Sackville-West was the daughter of the 3rd Baron Sackville. She was born in 1892 at Knole House in Kent. In 1913 she married the diplomat and journalist, Harold Nicolson. The couple bought Sissinghurst Castle in 1930, a ruined Elizabethan manor house, and spent years creating a garden that would be a tribute to their love and ...
27 de abr. de 2014 · Victoria turned out a beauty in the straight-nosed, lantern-jawed Edwardian manner. ... Robert Sackville-West, the current Lord Sackville, is descended from a more sober strain of the family.
