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Vita Sackville-West
English writer and gardener (–)
Not to be confused with her mother, Victoria Sackville-West, Baroness Sackville.
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March – 2 June ), 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 and 13 novels during her life. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in for her Collected Poems.
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She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf.
She wrote a column in The Observer from to and is remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst in Kent, created with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson.
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West — called Vita, to