Vita Sackville-West
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Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
Sackville-West around 1915, from The Life of V. Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina Sackville-West, Baroness Sackville. Vita's mother, circa 1885
Vita in childhood
Vita Sackville-West in 1913
Orlando: A Biography
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Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928, inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's love
Vita Sackville-West
…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…
Cover of the 1928 edition
Detail of an ad for Orlando run by Harcourt, Brace and Company in the New Yorker, 17 November 1928