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Sackville-West

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Sackville-West
Victoria (Mary), known as Vita. 1892--1962, British writer and gardener, whose works include the novel The Edwardians (1930) and the poem The Land (1931). She is also noted for the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent. Married to Harold Nicolson


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Byline: Elizabeth Shaheen One of the most celebrated naturalistic white gardens was created by Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst in Kent, England.
Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais, the poet Thom Gunn and his houseful of committed partners--well, what we've always been is inventive, resourceful, and alive to the many ways it's possible to be together, to make a life.
In 1922, when modernism was demolishing all the old narrative certainties, Vita Sackville-West wrote of her ancestral home, Knole of some very old woman who has always been beautiful, who has had many lovers and seen many generations come and go … It is above all an English home … It has the tone of England; it melts into the green of the garden turf, into the tawnier green of the park beyond, into the blue of the pale English sky.
 
 
 
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