Vita Sackville-West (second from left) with, from left, her husband Harold Nicholson, her lover Rosamund Grosvenor, and her father Lionel.
Vita Sackville-West, born 1892
writer & garden designer
Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer. She 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 during her lifetime and 13 novels. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf. She had a longstanding column in The Observer (1946–1961) and is remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst created with her husband, the diplomat and MP Sir Harold Nicolson.
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Source: Compiled in 2021, with acknowledgement and thanks, from internet sources.