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Victoria Sackville-West was an English poet and novelist whose work continues to captivate readers with its lyrical language and exploration of themes such as love, nature, and the passage of time. She is particularly known for her long poem, "The Land" , a pastoral work celebrating the English countryside.
Vita Sackville-West (Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, 1892–1962) was an author, poet, and gardener, known for her affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf. Early life She was born at Knole House, Sevenoaks , the vast ancestral home of the Sackville-Wests, which she has written about in her book Knole and the Sackvilles .
3 de abr. de 2022 · 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 ...
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 ...
31 de out. de 2023 · Jump to. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, known as Vita, was born at Knole in 1892 and grew up there, the only child of Lionel Edward Sackville-West (later 3rd Baron Sackville) and his cousin, Victoria Sackville-West. She loved Knole but was unable to inherit the estate due to the laws of primogeniture dictating that only men could inherit property.
13 de out. de 2014 · Again and again, I found myself turning to my battered paperback of Victoria Glendinning’s Whitbread prize-winning biography of Sackville-West, the better to fill in the holes in Dennison’s doily.
The second Baron Sackville-West, Vita's grandfather, had sired five illegitimate children, including Vita's mother, Victoria Sackville-West, with a Spanish dancer known as Pepita. Lacking a legitimate heir, Knole and the noble title would pass to the baron's nephew Lionel Sackville-West, who married his cousin Victoria in the Chapel at Knole in 1890.
