Josefa Duran

VSW understood her own nature in terms of a duality of blood created by the union between her maternal grandmother, the Spanish gipsy dancer Pepita (whose biography she wrote), and the Sackville line (through her...

VSW 's mother, born Victoria Sackville-West , was the illegitimate daughter of Lionel Sackville-West (later the second Lord Sackville) and Pepita (Josefa Durán) , a Spanish dancer. This unmarried couple lived under assumed names in...

She portrays the long-running relationship between her Spanish courtesan grandmother, Pepita (Josefa Durán) , and her English aristocrat grandfather, Lionel Sackville-West (later the second Lord Sackville) , as one of passion and unconventionality. The Disinherited...

The Hogarth Press published VSW 's Pepita, an account of hergrandmother the Spanish dancer, and also of her mother (one of Pepita's children born outside wedlock) and other relations.

This would have meant disproving the marriage of his mother, the dancer Pepita , to her Spanish husband, as well as proving her marriage to Lord Sackville. The case was eventually settled in favour of...