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Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH, è stata una poetessa, scrittrice e botanica inglese, meglio nota come Vita Sackville-West, famosa per la sua relazione tempestosa con Virginia Woolf, per i suoi scritti sul giardinaggio e per la realizzazione del Giardino del Castello di Sissinghurst nel Kent.
Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina Sackville-West (Baroness Sackville), (23 September 1862 – 30 January 1936) [2] was a British noblewoman, mother of the writer, poet, and gardener Vita Sackville-West.
- Biography
- Sissinghurst
- Writing
- Death and Legacy
- Works
- Sources
- Further Reading
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Antecedents
Victoria Mary Sackville-West — called Vita, to distinguish her from her mother — was born on 9 March 1892 at Knole, the Kent home of Sackville-West's aristocratic ancestors. She was the only child of cousins Victoria Sackville-West and Lionel Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville. Vita's mother, the illegitimate daughter of Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville and the Spanish dancer Pepita(Josefa de Oliva, née Durán y Ortega), had been raised in a Parisian convent. Although the marriage o...
Early life
Sackville-West was initially taught at home by governesses and later attended Helen Wolff's school for girls, an exclusive day school in Mayfair, where she met first loves Violet Keppel and Rosamund Grosvenor. She did not befriend local children and found it hard to make friends at school. Her biographers characterise her childhood as one filled by loneliness and isolation. She wrote prolifically at Knole, penning eight full-length (unpublished) novels between 1906 and 1910, ballads and many...
First loves
Sackville-West debuted in 1910. She was wooed by Orazio Pucci, son of a distinguished Florentine family; by Lord Granby (later 9th Duke of Rutland); and by Lord Lascelles (later 6th Earl of Harewood), among others. In 1924 she had a passionate affair with historian Geoffrey Scott. Scott's marriage collapsed shortly thereafter, as was often the fallout with Sackville-West's affairs, all with women after this point (as most of them had been beforehand). Sackville-West fell in love with Rosamund...
In 1930 the family acquired and moved to Sissinghurst Castle, near Cranbrook, Kent. It had once been owned by Vita's ancestors. This gave it a dynastic attraction as she was excluded from inheriting Knole and a title. Sissinghurst was an Elizabethan ruin and the creation of the gardens would be a joint labour of love that would last many decades, f...
Portrait of a Marriage
In the early 1920s Sackville-West wrote a memoir of her relationships. In it she sought to explain both why she had chosen to stay with Nicolson and why she had fallen in love with Violet Keppel. The work, titled Portrait of a Marriage, was not published until 1973. In the book she uses metaphors from nature to present her account as truthful and honest, describing her life as a "bog" and a "swamp", suggesting that her personal life was naturally unappealing and unpleasant. Sackville-West sta...
Challenge
Sackville-West's novel Challenge(1923) also bears witness to her affair with Keppel: Sackville-West and Keppel had started writing this book as a collaborative endeavour. It was published in America but banned in the UK until 1974. The male character's name, Julian, had been Sackville-West's nickname when passing as a man. Challenge (first entitled Rebellion, then Enchantment, then Vanity and at some point Foam), is a roman à clef with the character of Julian being a male version of Sackville...
Orlando
Woolf was inspired by Sackville-West to write her novel Orlando (1928), featuring a protagonist who changes sex over the centuries.[n][o] Reflecting Sackville-West's interest in the Romani, when Orlando goes to bed as a man and mysteriously wakes up as a woman in Constantinople (which is implied might have been the result of a spell cast by a Romani witch whom he married), it is at a Romani camp in the Balkans that Orlando is first welcomed and accepted as a woman, as the Romani in the novel...
Vita Sackville-West died at Sissinghurst in June 1962, aged 70, from abdominal cancer. She was cremated and ashes buried in the family crypt within the church at Withyham, eastern Sussex. Sissinghurst Castle is owned by the National Trust. Her son Nigel Nicolson lived there after her death, and following his death in 2004 his own son Adam Nicolson,...
Influences
1. Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf(Hogarth Press, 1928) 2. Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-Westby Matthew Dennison (2014)
Carney, Michael: Stoker: The Life of Hilda Matheson, privately published, Llangynog, 1999.Ghani, Sirus: Iran and the Rise of the Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power, I. B.Tauris, 2000.Glendinning, Victoria: Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.Lord, Tony: Gardening at Sissinghurst, Frances Lincoln and National Trust, 2000.Cross, Robert and Ann Ravenscroft-Hulme: Vita Sackville-West: A Bibliography, Oak Knoll Press, 1999. ISBN 1-58456-004-5Eberle, Iwona: Eve with a Spade: Women, Gardens, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century, Grin, 2011. ISBN 978-3-640-84355-8Wolf, Peggy: Sternenlieder und Grabgesänge. Vita Sackville-West: Eine kommentierte Bibliographie der deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen von ihr und über sie 1930–2005. Daphne-Verlag, 2006. ISBN 3...Batchelor, Kathryn; Chamberlain, Lesley; Martin, Alison E (2022). "Harold in Germany, Vita in Love: Stories from Sissinghurst's Library" (PDF). UCL Discovery. University College London School of Eu..."Archival material relating to Vita Sackville-West". UK National Archives.Portraits of Vita Sackville-West at the National Portrait Gallery, LondonSackville-West family tree at National Portrait Gallery, LondonVita Sackville-West Encyclopedia.com21 apr 2015 · 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.
28 giu 2023 · Victoria Mary Sackville-West, meglio nota con il più breve “Vita” per non confonderla con la madre, è stata un’autrice inglese, botanica, poetessa, giornalista e anche garden designer, avendo progettato il celebre giardino del castello di Sissinghurst, nel Kent.
31 mar 2020 · Vita Sackville-West. How preposterous is it that Vita Sackville-West, the best-selling bisexual baroness who wrote over thirty-five books that made an ingenious mockery of twenties societal norms, should be remembered today merely as a smoocher of Virginia Woolf?
6 ago 2024 · Vita Sackville-West (born March 9, 1892, Knole, Kent, England—died June 2, 1962, Sissinghurst Castle, Kent) was an English novelist and poet who wrote chiefly about the Kentish countryside, where she spent most of her life.
