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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 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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After Virginia Woolf had moved to Monk's House, East Sussex, she met Vita Sackville-West, writing her roman à clef Orlando: A Biography about her. Woolf also met the LGBT people around her, including: [9] Harold Nicolson, Sackville-West's husband; Benedict Nicolson, their son; Violet Trefusis, her former lover
Edward Charles Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville (13 November 1901 – 4 July 1965) was a British music critic, novelist and, in his last years, a member of the House of Lords. Musically gifted as a boy, he was attracted as a young man to a literary life and wrote a series of semi-autobiographical novels in the 1920s and 1930s.