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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 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.
5 giorni fa · 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.
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21 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.
British novelist, poet, and gardener Victoria Mary Sackville-West was raised at her family’s ancestral estate, Knole, in Kent. In her poetry, she often engaged themes of natural life and romantic love. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry during her lifetime, including The Land…
31 mar 2020 · 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?
Sackville-West, who signed all her books V. Sackville-West, published Poems of East and West in 1917, a collection of lyric poems composed while she was in Constantinople. In Heritage (1919), her first novel, she explored her own history through metaphors of genetic determinism, and in The Heir (1922) she vented her feelings about Knole.
