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Sackville-West, V(ictoria Mary)

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
also called Vita 1892-1962 English poet and novelist Born in Knole, Kent, she was educated privately, and started writing novels and plays as a child. In 1913 she married the diplomat Harold Nicolson ; their marriage survived despite Nicolson's homosexuality and her own long-term affair with Virginia Woolf . Her first published works were a collection of poems, Poems of West and East (1917), and a novel, Heritage (1919). In her Orchard and Vineyard (1921) and her long poem The Land , which won the 1927 Hawthornden Prize, she expresses her closeness to the countryside where she lived. Her prose works include the novels The Edwardians (1930), All Passion Spent (1931) and No Signposts in the Sea (1961), an account of her family in Knole and the Sackvilles (1947) and studies of Andrew Marvell and Joan of Arc . Passenger to Teheran (1926) records her years in Persia with her husband, and she was the model for Woolf's Orlando (1928). She was a passionate gardener at her home at Sissinghurst…
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Full text Article Sackville West, Vita

From Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
Immortalized by Virginia WOOLF in her fantasy novel Orlando , S.-West—who published as Vita Sackville-West—was descended from one of England’s most aristocratic families and enjoyed a prolific literary career as a novelist, poet, and biographer. Educated privately at home, she briefly attended a…
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Full text Article Sackville-West, Vita [Victoria]

From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
English writer. Born at Knole, Kent, the daughter of the third Baron Sackville, she was educated privately. She loved writing as a child and had completed eight novels and five plays by the age of 18. In 1913 she married the civil servant Harold Nicolson, accompanying him on his posting to…
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English novelist. The daughter of the 3rd Baron Sackville, she married the diplomat Harold Nicolson. She wrote novels, poetry and memoirs, and a regular gardening column for the Observer. Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep, For winter’s big with summer in her womb. 1926 The Land, …
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Full text Article CATS

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
Cruel, but composed and bland,Dumb, inscrutable and grand,So Tiberius might have sat,Had Tiberius been a cat. ARNOLD, Matthew ‘ Poor Matthias ’. Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one likeMacavity,There never was a Cat of suchdeceitfulness and suavity.He always has an alibi, and one or two tospare:At…
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Full text Article THE COUNTRY

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I nauseate walking; ’tis a country diversion, I loathe the country. CONGREVE, William The Way of the World (1700). God made the country, and man made the town. COWPER, William The Task (1785). ... …
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Full text Article TRAVEL

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A wanderer is man from his birth.He was born in a shipOn the breast of the river of Time. ARNOLD, Matthew ‘ The Future ’. [Reply on being asked if he had ever been lost] I can’t say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. [Attr.] I have done almost every human activity inside a…
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Full text Article Sackville-West, Vita

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born March 9, 1892, Knole, Kent, Eng.—died June 2, 1962, Sissinghurst Castle, Kent) British novelist and poet. The daughter of a baron, she married the diplomat and author Harold Nicolson (1886–1968) in 1913; her journal was the basis of Portrait of a Marriage (1973) by their son Nigel, which…
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Born into a wealthy and aristocratic family and brought up at Knole, the ancestral home of the Sackville family. She became a prolific novelist and biographer, but never shook off the air of a dilettante and is best remembered for her literary friendships (notably with Virginia Woolf), her…
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Full text Article Sackville-West, V(ictoria Mary)

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
also called Vita 1892-1962 English poet and novelist Born in Knole, Kent, she was educated privately, and started writing novels and plays as a child. In 1913 she married the diplomat Harold Nicolson ; their marriage survived despite Nicolson's homosexuality and her own long-term affair with…
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