"Vita: A Biography of Vita Sackville-West" 1983 Glendinning, Victoria

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GLENDINNING, Victoria

[436] pp.

Alfred A Knopf

1983

9 1/2" x 6 1/2"

Front-of-jacket painting: Lady In A Red Hat … Read more GLENDINNING, Victoria

[436] pp.

Alfred A Knopf

1983

9 1/2" x 6 1/2"

Front-of-jacket painting: Lady In A Red Hat by William Strang

Victoria Glendinning's masterful biography of Vita Sackville West. Glendinning discusses Vita's life, from childhood to old age, and examines both her professional and private lives.

Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.

She was a successful novelist, poet, and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry during her lifetime and 13 novels. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf.

She had a longstanding column in The Observer (1946–1961) and is remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst created with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson. See less