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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.
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 ...
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 ...
All Passion Spent echoes some of Sackville-West's primary concerns: [2] people's place in society, society's constrictions on people, and women's control of their lives. Sackville-West, voiced by Lady Slane, disavowed feminism [ citation needed ] and like her long-time lover and friend Virginia Woolf , considered the issues raised were issues ...
In 1554 Sir John's daughter Cecily married Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, an ancestor of Vita Sackville-West. By the 18th century the Baker's fortunes had waned, and the house, renamed Sissinghurst Castle, was leased to the government to act as a prisoner-of-war camp during the Seven Years' War. The prisoners caused great damage and by ...
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.
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.
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