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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.
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.
Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville (1827–1908) diplomat; Lionel Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville (1913–2004) stockbroker; Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) author, member of the Bloomsbury group; John Salako (born 1969) association footballer; James Sharman (living) TV producer and sportscaster; host of The Footy Show on The Score
Nicolson was born on 6 August 1914. He was the elder son of authors Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West and the brother of writer and politician Nigel.His godmothers were Violet Trefusis, Olive Custance and Rosamund Grosvenor.
Vita Sackville-West, poet, author, and gardener, was born at Knole, about 25 miles from Sissinghurst, on 9 March 1892. [29] The great Elizabethan mansion, home of her ancestors but denied to her through agnatic primogeniture , [ 30 ] [ d ] held enormous importance for her throughout her life.
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.
Violet Trefusis (née Keppel; 6 June 1894 – 29 February 1972) was an English socialite and author.She is chiefly remembered for her lengthy affair with the writer Vita Sackville-West that both women continued after their respective marriages.
Sackville-West's marriage to Jacobine Hichens (née Menzies-Wilson) in 1953 produced five daughters, and on the birth of each one, his cousin Vita Sackville-West wrote a letter bemoaning the failure to produce a male heir for the Knole estate. Vita was greatly affected by the fact that, as a woman, she was barred from inheriting Knole from her ...