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Encyclopedia: Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson [1] [2], CH (March 9, 1892 – June 2, 1962) was an English poet, novelist and gardener. Her long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it again, becoming the only writer to do so, in 1933 with her Collected Poems. She helped create her own gardens in Sissinghurst, Kent which provide the backdrop to Sissinghurst Castle. She was famous for her exuberant aristocratic life, her strong marriage, and her passionate affairs with women like novelist Virginia Woolf.

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Baron Sackville

Baron Sackville (b. 1958) Related articles Vita Sackville-West Victoria Sackville-West... Sackville-West, 1st Baron Sackville (1820-1888) Lionel Sackville Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville (1827-1908) Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville (1867-1928) Charles John Sackville-West...

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A Biography

refer to Vita Sackville-West and Violet Trefusis respectively (see: 2nd section of "Violet Trefusis... Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, nonetheless Virginia Woolf intended her novel as the first in a... Sackville-West. Her husband, Harold Nicolson, appears in the novel as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine...

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Harold Nicolson

writer Vita Sackville-West, and she encouraged his literary ambitions. In 1921, he published a... Oswald Mosley's party, he became a member of Parliament for West Leicester in 1935, for the ruling...

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Knole House

the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, it was presented to her cousin Thomas Sackville whose descendants have lived there ever since. Most notably, these include writer Vita Sackville-West (her Knole and the Sackvilles (1922) is regarded as a classic in the literature of English country houses); her friend...

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Sissinghurst Castle

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History of gardening

Frederick Law Olmstead Gertrude Jekyll Vita Sackville-West Russell Page Luis Barragan Notable... Lutyens, set the model for high-style, high-maintenance gardening until the Second World War. Vita Sackville-West's garden at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent is the most famous and influential garden of this...

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Camilla Parker Bowles

socialite who caused an international scandal in the 1920s by eloping with fellow writer Vita Sackville-West; both ladies were married at the time. The relationship between the former Mrs Parker Bowles... daughter of the 3rd Baron Ashcombe (whose family made their fortune in constructing much of the West...

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Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse

- Alan Ross - A. L. Rowse - Vita Sackville-West - 'Sagittarius' - Siegfried Sassoon - Vernon Scannell...

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Roy Campbell (Poet)

affair with Vita Sackville-West (who was the lover of Virginia Woolf) was a contributing cause to this...

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Gardening

"Capability" Brown A. J. Downing Frederick Law Olmstead Gertrude Jekyll Vita Sackville-West Russell Page...

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