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

Eddy Sackville-West suffered from hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, “which could cause agonizing lesions” in organs and skin.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

Among them was one that Woolf had inscribed to Vita Sackville-West, her lover; one owned by Noël Coward; and another owned by John Maynard Keynes.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2021

A letter purporting to be from a Charles F. Murchison, a naturalized American of English birth, was sent to the British minister in Washington, Lord Sackville-West.

From The United States Since the Civil War by Charles Ramsdell Lingley