At thirteen VSW
began attending a small day school run by Helen Wolff
(whose name is variously spelled in various sources) in South Audley Street, off Park Lane. The staff were mostly male. Vita...
Family and Intimate relationships
Vita Sackville-West
In her early teens VSW
wrote of her childhood friend Rosamund Grosvenor
, later Lynch (whom she called Roddie, Rose and, later, the Rubens lady),
qtd. in
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
47
What a funny thing it is to love...
Literary responses
Vita Sackville-West
Rosamund
was outraged at its public appearance: How dare you put my very own beautiful poem in an ordinary magazine for all the eyes of the common public to stare at?
qtd. in
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
60
It seems that...
Publishing
Vita Sackville-West
VSW
, in Florence, wrote a poem about Rosamund Grosvenor
called A Dancing Elf, which appeared in the English Review not long before Vita was married.