Sackville-West

[ sak-vil-west ]

noun

1. Dame Victoria Mary Vita, 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).

Sackville-West

/ ˌsækvɪl ˈwɛst /

noun

1. Sackville-WestVictoria (Mary)18921962FBritishWRITING: writerTECHNOLOGY: gardener Victoria ( Mary ), known as Vita . 1892–1962, British writer and gardener, whose works include the novel The Edwardians (1930) and the poem The Land (1931). She is also noted for the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent. Married to Harold Nicolson

Example Sentences

Its famous library was first curated to encapsulate the literary culture from when it was built in the 1920s, and features handwritten works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Vita Sackville-West, A. A. Milne and Thomas Hardy.

From BBC

Virginia Woolf’s fantastical 1928 feminist novel “Orlando: A Biography,” inspired by her lover Vita Sackville-West, charts 300 years of an invented life that starts as a boy’s and changes into a woman’s.

From Los Angeles Times

Woolf dedicated the book to her lover Vita Sackville-West, whose son Nigel Nicolson described it as “the longest and most charming love letter in literature,” one in which Woolf weaves Vita “in and out of the centuries, tosses her from one sex to the other, plays with her, dresses her in furs, lace and emeralds.”

From New York Times

This important information — newly included in “Dear California,” like most of the book’s L.A. material — comes to us courtesy of Vita Sackville-West.

From Los Angeles Times

Look close, too, and you’ll see one of the key differences between Los Angeles and California: how quickly a traveler like Sackville-West skates rhetorically from L.A. to America to Hollywood, and jumbles up all three.

From Los Angeles Times