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5 giorni fa · Vita Sackville-West was an English novelist and poet who wrote chiefly about the Kentish countryside, where she spent most of her life. She was the daughter of the 3rd Baron Sackville and a granddaughter of Pepita, a Spanish dancer, whose story she told in Pepita (1937). In 1913 she married Harold.
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3 giorni fa · Nata nel 1892 nella Knole House, nel Kent, figlia di Lionel, III barone Sackville e di Victoria Sackville-Wes, nel 1913 si sposa con Harold Nicolson, diplomatico, giornalista, membro del Parlamento e scrittore. Sia Vita che il marito ebbero varie e consecutive relazioni omosessuali extra matrimoniali.
4 giorni fa · Sissinghurst Castle Garden. Historic, poetic, iconic: a refuge dedicated to beauty. Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson fell in love with Sissinghurst Castle and created a world-renowned garden.
3 giorni fa · Many of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson's guests to Sissinghurst, including figures of the Bloomsbury Group, are now seen as significant figures in LGBTQ+ history. 'Radical Relationships' reveals the works and lives of these fascinating individuals as told through Sissinghurst's bookshelves.
2 giorni fa · Pasaban solo tres minutos del mediodía cuando Winston Churchill entró en la Cámara de los Comunes. El parlamentario laborista Harold Nicolson escribiría más tarde que aquel día, el 6 de ...
1 giorno fa · One of Vita and Harold’s less successful experiments was a Mediterranean garden, based on the trip they made to the Greek island of Delos in 1935 and described by Vita: “the plan was inspired ...
5 giorni fa · Together with his 'sibling' Lord Sumner, the prime minister cast as the pair as the villains of the reparations settlement in his inaptly entitled memoirs of the conference 'The Truth about the Peace Treaties' and his verdict endorsed the views of earlier impressive witnesses such as Harold Nicolson and John Maynard Keynes.
