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Poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West began writing as a child. Born at elegant Knole Castle, scene of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando (1928), Sackville-West was educated in that 365-room dwelling. In 1913 she married Harold Nicolson (see Vol. 3), journalist, diplomat, and biographer. Despite Nicolson's homosexuality and her own lesbian affair with Violet Trefusis, this marriage survived. Poems of East and West, her first book, was published in 1917. She remained unknown except by a small group of literary connoisseurs until 1927, when she received the Hawthornden Prize for a second volume of poetry. At this time she lived in London and was part of the Bloomsbury group, which also included Lytton Strachey (see Vol. 3), E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes (see Vol. 3), and Woolf. Sackville-West published many novels and volumes of poetry, biography, and family history, and several books on gardening, as well as book reviews and criticism. All of her writings reflect the same unhurried approach, deep reflection, and brilliantly polished style. Her influence on other writers, especially Woolf, was perhaps greater than her own individual achievement. The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931) are her best-known novels. Sackville-West's son, Nigel Nicholson, recounted the close, but unconventional relationship of his parents in the memoir Portrait of a Marriage, published in 1973. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from All Passion Spent… (more)
All Passion Spent 1,143 copies, 56 reviews
The Edwardians 743 copies, 26 reviews
Saint Joan of Arc 432 copies, 7 reviews
No Signposts in the Sea 306 copies, 10 reviews
The Illustrated Garden Book 247 copies, 2 reviews
Family History 234 copies, 5 reviews
Pepita 189 copies, 6 reviews
Passenger to Teheran 140 copies, 4 reviews
Knole and the Sackvilles 118 copies, 2 reviews
English Country Houses 117 copies, 2 reviews
Challenge 113 copies, 2 reviews
Some Flowers 109 copies, 2 reviews
In Your Garden 104 copies, 1 review
The Heir 69 copies, 7 reviews
The Land 65 copies, 2 reviews
Heritage 59 copies, 1 review
A Joy of Gardening 57 copies, 1 review
The Dark Island 53 copies, 2 reviews
The Garden 45 copies, 3 reviews
The Easter Party 43 copies, 1 review
Virago Omnibus II (Contributor) 38 copies
Grand Canyon 20 copies, 3 reviews
Virago Omnibus III (Contributor) 19 copies
Knole, Kent 16 copies
Country Notes in Wartime 13 copies, 1 review
Country Notes 12 copies
Sissinghurst 11 copies
Nursery Rhymes 10 copies
Faces: Profiles of Dogs 9 copies, 1 review
Poems of West and East 5 copies, 1 review
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (Contributor) 402 copies, 1 review
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (Contributor) 231 copies, 2 reviews
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers (Contributor) 186 copies, 1 review
Love Letters (Contributor) 178 copies, 1 review
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (Contributor) 108 copies, 1 review
The Faber Book of Gardens (Contributor) 45 copies, 2 reviews
The Old Shrub Roses (Foreword, some editions) 35 copies
The Legacy of Persia (Contributor) 27 copies
Portrait of a Marriage [1990 TV mini-series] (Original book) 25 copies, 2 reviews
The Gardener's Bedside Reader (Contributor) 20 copies
Women on Nature (Contributor) 20 copies
All Passion Spent [1986 TV mini series] (Original novel) 8 copies
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