Vita sackville west biography

' What each of us would look for in an ideal future biographer is what each of us looks for in an ideal doctor: sympathy, trustfulness and acute powers of diagnosis. All these three qualities are here present. Vita would undoubtedly have shared our approval and gratitude' Sunday Telegraph Vita Sackville-West was a vital, begåvad and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent. Vita documents her extraordinary life, focusing on her relationships with Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, her husband, and her two sons tillsammans with her unpublicised love affairs. Vita was determined to be more than just a married woman; her passionate, secretive character, and the strains, mistakes and achievements of her remarkable life makes " Vita" a absorbing and disturbing bo

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“Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.”

 – Vita Sackville-West

English author, poet, and biographer Vita Sackville-West was born into British aristocracy.  An only child, she was devastated when the laws of primogeniture prevented her from inheriting Knole House, the ancestral home given to her forebear by Queen Elizabeth I, because she was not male. Determined to be a successful writer, from she produced 8 novels and 5 plays. In she married diplomat Harold Nicholson and moved to Persia before returning to Britain to live in Sissinghurst Castle. The couple had two sons and a strong (if unconventional) marriage given his homosexuality and her intense lesbian relationships, most notably her affairs with BBC department head Hilda Matheson, novelist Violet Keppel Trefusis and literary giant Virginia Woolf. West’s life served as the basis for Woolf’s Orlando, which was described by

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Vita Sackville-West

English writer and gardener (–)

Not to be confused with her mother, Victoria Sackville-West, Baroness Sackville.

Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March – 2 June ), 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. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf.

She wrote a column in The Observer from to and is remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst in Kent, created with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson.

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