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 (săk′vĭl-wĕst′), Victoria Mary Known as "Vita." 1892-1962.
British writer whose novels include The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931).
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Sackville-West

(ˌsækvɪl ˈwɛst)
n
(Biography) 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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Dame Victoria Mary ( “Vita” ), 1892–1962, English poet and novelist.
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From next Tuesday to Thursday, Vita and Virginia (12A) takes us back to the Bloomsbury set in London in the 1920s for the story of how the scandalous and sexually promiscuous socialite, Vita Sackville-West pursued and seduced the writer Virginia Woolf.
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As Vita Sackville-West, she's a married "promiscuous exhibitionist" aristocrat who pursues a scandalous affair with famed writer Virginia Woolf, played here by Elizabeth Debicki.
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DESIRE Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki as Vita and Woolf As Vita Sackville-West, she's a married "promiscuous exhibitionist" aristocrat who pursues a scandalous affair with famed writer Virginia Woolf.
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Other designers of twentieth century also got a mention like Edwin Lutyens(Castle Drogo), Vita Sackville-West (Sissinghurst) and Gertrude Jekyll (Barrington Court).
Enjoyable pictorial tour
Related material: 41 letters from Vita Sackville-West to Violet Trefusis; files relating to Robert Manson Myers's From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf in the Edmond Pauker Papers.
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A PREVIOUSLY unseen work by the novelist Vita Sackville-West - written as a miniature book for Queen Mary's dolls' house - is to be published for the first time.
Tiny novel discovered in doll house
Perhaps the most famous of these gardens is the one at Sissinghurst Castle, home of writer and diplomat Harold Nicolson and his wife Vita Sackville-West, an excellent writer and the inspiration for the protagonist of Woolf's novel Orlando.
In Bloomsbury country
Minority Voices Theatre will present "Vita & Virginia," a romantic, revealing play adapted from the love letters between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Using their own words, the play chronicles their love affair from their first meeting in 1922 until Woolf's death in 1941.
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Eva Green and Gemma Arterton, both straight, will star as literary lovers Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West in a UK film
The gaydar
Admirers of Virginia Woolf's fiction will recognize Pepita as the Spanish dancer whom Orlando marries in Orlando (1928), Woolf's unique "love-letter" to Vita Sackville-West. The actual Pepita died in childbirth at the age of 41, when her eldest daughter Victoria was only eight years old.
House love and human love
By Vita Sackville-West. (London, United Kingdom: Unicorn Press Ltd, 2014.
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