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Sackville-West’s son Nigel Nicolson wrote the biography Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (1973). A founding member of the National Trust’s garden committee, Sackville-West wrote a weekly gardening column for The Observer and was awarded a Veitch Memorial Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society.
Vita Sackville-West werd geboren in Knole House in Kent. Haar eerste liefde was voor dit huis, omdat zij zich de enige erfgename voelde, wat ze in wezen ook was. Maar omdat ze een vrouw was kon ze het niet erven, wat haar leven sterk beïnvloedde. Vita was de dochter van Lord Lionel Edward Sackville en Lady Victoria Sackville, née Sackville-West.
21 apr 2015 · Vita Sackville-West: la donna che amò Virginia Woolf. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, meglio conosciuta come Vita Sackville-West, poetessa e scrittrice nata nel Kent alla fine dell’Ottocento, divenne nota al grande pubblico soprattutto per la relazione con una delle autrici simbolo della letteratura inglese del XX secolo, Virginia Woolf.
Vita sackville-West (Knole, Kent, 1892 - Sissinghurst, Kent, 1962) scrittrice inglese. Frequentò il gruppo di Bloomsbury e fu amica di V. Woolf, che si ispirò a lei e alla sua aristocratica famiglia per il romanzo Orlando.
Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson (genannt Vita; * 9. März 1892 auf Knole House, Sevenoaks, Kent; † 2. Juni 1962 auf Sissinghurst Castle) war eine englische Schriftstellerin und Gartengestalterin. Sie ist auch durch ihre Beziehung mit der Schriftstellerin Virginia Woolf bekannt geworden, der sie als Vorbild für den Roman Orlando ...
23 ago 2019 · Vita & Virginia depicts the two women meeting at a costume party, at which Sackville-West is immediately entranced by Woolf’s intellect and eloquence. The two women met in December 1922 and grew ...
28 lug 2016 · Drawing of Vita Sackville-West by Nina Cosford from Virginia Woolf: An Illustrated Biography On October 11, 1928 — the day Orlando published — Vita received a lavish package, containing a pristine copy of the book and Virginia’s original manuscript, custom-bound for Vita in Niger leather, her initials engraved on the spine.
