Vita Sackville-West
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The Land and The Garden, create classically-descended georgic from the traditional labour of the Kentish countryside, and the related art of gardening. Many novels (some she called pot-boilers) use conventional style to delineate upper-class society, but she also made forays (first inspired by
) into the experimental. She wrote history, biography, travel books, diaries, and letters. She was a popular and productive journalist, both in print and on the radio, whose topics included literature, gardening, and the status of women (though she refused the label of feminist). Her gardening writings and her actual gardens remain her best-known works. Her masterpiece, the Sissinghurst gardens, are the most-visited in Britain.
wrote prolifically and almost obsessively from her childhood in the early twentieth century. She began with poems, plays, and fiction about her family's romantic links to English history. As an adult she used these genres to describe or transform her own complicated love-life: lesbian relationships, triangular relationships, love between masculine women and feminine men. Her best-known poems, - BirthName: Victoria Mary Sackville-WestVita's parents called her the Mar (a private word meaning a baby or small child). Later she called herself Mar in the family. She and Harold Nicolson spoke of themselves as mars when constructing their relationship as childlike, and also of their sons as the mars.
- Nickname:
- Self-constructed: Vita; V. Sackville-West
- Married: Nicolson
- Styled: The Honourable
- Titled: Lady