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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.
The Edwardians First edition cover Author Vita Sackville-West Language English Genre Bildungsroman Publisher Hogarth Press Publication date 1930 Publication place United Kingdom Media type Print (hardcover) Pages 346 OCLC 365653 The Edwardians (1930) is one of Vita Sackville-West's later novels and a clear critique of the Edwardian aristocratic society as well as a reflection of her own ...
The West family is a noble family in the United Kingdom and a prominent family in the history of the U.S. state of Virginia. The Sackville-West branch is descended from George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr, originally a West who added the surname of his wife, Elizabeth Sackville. The most famous is Vita Sackville-West.
Lionel Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville: 26. George Dodwell: 13. Georgina Dodwell: 27. Victoria Gethin: 3. The Hon. Vita Sackville-West: 28. George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr (= 24) 14. Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville: 29. Lady Elizabeth Sackville, 1st Baroness Buckhurst (= 25) 7. Victoria Sackville-West: 30. Pedro Durán ...
Nigel Nicolson, Sackville-West's son, wrote, "The effect of Vita on Virginia is all contained in Orlando, the longest and most charming love letter in literature, in which she explores Vita, weaves her in and out of the centuries, tosses her from one sex to the other, plays with her, dresses her in furs, lace and emeralds, teases her, flirts ...
The character names were punning parodies of prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group and other characters of the day: Miriam Margolyes as Vera Sackcloth-Vest (Vita Sackville-West), creator of the garden at Sizzlinghurst Castle (Sissinghurst Castle Garden). Jonathan Coy as her husband, Henry Mickleton (Harold Nicolson).
By the nineteenth century it had been restored and extended by the addition of a long barn, hence the name of the house, which was moved to the site from the field below. Restoration work was started by the Thompsons and later continued by the diplomat Harold Nicolson and his wife, writer Vita Sackville-West , who lived there until 1931.
Their daughter, born in 1892, was the writer, poet, and gardener Vita Sackville-West. The family lived mainly at Knole House , an estate that had been in the Sackville family for centuries. Victoria was notorious for beginning and dropping various money-making schemes, some intended for supposedly charitable aims, but most for her personal use.