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

This important information — newly included in “Dear California,” like most of the book’s L.A. material — comes to us courtesy of Vita Sackville-West.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

Vita Sackville-West was the inspiration for her lover Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando,” which craftily shimmied past censorship of the “Sapphist” literature of the day.

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

Northward of Tunbridge, and near Sevenoaks, is Knole, the home of the family of Hon. L. S. Sackville-West, the present British minister at Washington.

From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Cook, Joel