Vita Sackville-West

Sackville-West around 1915, from ''The Life of V.Sackville-West'' by Victoria Glendinning 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. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, ''The Land'', and in 1933 for her ''Collected Poems''. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of ''Orlando: A Biography'', by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf. She wrote a column in ''The Observer'' from 1946 to 1961 and is remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst in Kent, created with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Sackville-West, Vita 1892-1962
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