The Land Vita Sackville-West – Vita Sackville-West was born on March 9, 1892. The illegitimate daughter of a baron and a Spanish dancer, she grew up with money but few friends. She adored writing poetry from an early age. She grew up both in England and France.Vita realized quickly that she adored both men and women. She had a wide range of suitors, but she preferred enjoying life on her own terms. At 21 she married Harold Nicholson, a near-penniless diplomat, but he was a good match for her. Both were bisexual and both enjoyed relationships with the others blessings.For a period of time Vita dressed as a man and travelled with one of her lovers, Violet Keppel. In 1925, Vita became involved with famous author Virginia Woolf the two became each others muse. Vita was the inspiration for Woolfs novel Orlando.
عن المؤلف
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.Sackville-West 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.
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