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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Example Sentences

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

At one time, writer Virginia Woolf lived at Knole with her lover, Vita Sackville-West.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2020

Writer-director Chanya Button crafts a swooning and surreal, subjective and subversive portrait of the affair between writers Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West in her sophomore feature “Vita & Virginia.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2019

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

It was taken from Cranmer by the Crown and granted in 1603 to Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst, afterwards Earl of Dorset, who is now represented by the Sackville-West family, the present owners.

From What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association by Home, Gordon