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Vita Sackville-West

Born

in Kent, England

March 09, 1892

Died

June 02, 1962

Genre

Memoir, Fiction, History

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Vita Sackville-West was a prolific English author, poet and memoirist in the early 20th-Century who is known not only for her writing, but for her not-so-private, private life. While married to the diplomat Harold Nicolson, she conducted a series of scandalous amorous liaisons with many women, including the brilliant Virginia Woolf. They had an open marriage. Both Sackville-West and her husband had same-sex relationships. Her exuberant aristocratic life was one of inordinate privilege and way ahead of her time. She frequently traveled to Europe in the company of one or the other of her lovers and often dressed as a man to be able to gain access to places where only the couples could go. Gardening, like writing, was a passion Vita cherished ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 13,863 ratings · 1,773 reviews · 123 distinct works • Similar authors

	All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West, Victoria Glendinning (Foreword) 3.99 avg rating — 3,616 ratings — published 1931 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf by Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Louise DeSalvo (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 1,541 ratings — published 1985 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West, Juliet Nicolson (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.78 avg rating — 1,575 ratings — published 1930 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Signposts in the Sea 3.64 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 1961 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Note of Explanation: An Undiscovered Story from Queen Mary's Dollhouse by Vita Sackville-West, Kate Baylay (Illustrations) 4.13 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 1922 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden by Vita Sackville-West, Sarah Raven 4.03 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 1997 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family History 3.75 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 1932 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint Joan of Arc 3.82 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1936 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Passenger to Teheran by Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson (Introduction) 3.81 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1926 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson by Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson, Nigel Nicolson (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

tags: correspondence, love, writers

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“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this —But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

tags: letters, life, love

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“I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”
― Vita Sackville-West

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Which work of fiction would you like to read in November 2017?

The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West

5 votes, 38.5%

Curtain Call by Anthony Quinn

2 votes, 15.4%

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

2 votes, 15.4%

Rogue Herries by Hugh Walpole

1 vote, 7.7%

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1 vote, 7.7%

Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold

1 vote, 7.7%

Zennor In Darkness by Helen Dunmore

1 vote, 7.7%

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