Sackville-West

American  

[sak-vil-west] / ˈsæk vɪlˈwɛst /

noun

1. Dame Victoria Mary Vita, 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).

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Sackville-West British  

/ ˌsækvɪl ˈwɛst /

noun

1. 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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Sackville-West

Famous for its all-white garden designed by Vita Sackville-West, and for inspiring “Orlando,” by Sackville-West’s lover Virginia Woolf, Knole also has a Reynolds Room of Georgian portraits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

Look close, too, and you’ll see one of the key differences between Los Angeles and California: how quickly a traveler like Sackville-West skates rhetorically from L.A. to America to Hollywood, and jumbles up all three.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

Per Mitchell, Sackville-West and others, being a gardener means simply gardening — embracing imperfection and ignorance, and persisting in the face of “ruin after ruin.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2023

British ambassdor Lionel Sackville-West was summarily sacked in 1888 for writing the so-called Murchison letter, which touched off a firestorm by indicating that Britain preferred Grover Cleveland over Republican Benjamin Harrison.

From Fox News ● Jul. 8, 2019

General Sackville-West came, and we had some peaceful sittings.

From An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 by Sir William Orpen

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