"Novelist, poet, and consumate gardener, Victoria Mary (Vita) Sackville-West was born on March 9, 1892, at Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent, England. She died of cancer on June 2, 1962, at Sissinghurst Castle. Vita was the daughter of Victoria Josepha Dolores Catalina and Lional Edward Sackville-West. Vita married Harold Nicolson on October 1. 1912. Vita and Harold had two children, Benedict and Nigel Nicolson."--Suellen Cox, (scox@fullerton.edu)
Sackville-West's novels include: Heritage (1919); The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1921); Challenge (1923); Grey Wethers: A Romantic Novel (1923); Seducers in Ecuador (1924); George H. Doran (1925); The Edwardians (1930); All Passions Spent (1932); Family History (1932); The Dark Island (1934); Grand Canyon: A Novel (1942); The Devil at Westease: The Story as Related by Roger Liddiard (1947); The Easter Party (1953); and No Signposts in the Sea (1961).
Back to notes on gender bending in Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography (1928)
Prepared by Professor Catherine Lavender for History 182 (Women's History and Feminist Theory), The Department of History, The College of Staten Island of The City University of New York. Send email to lavender@postbox.csi.cuny.edu
Fall Semester 1997. Last modified: Wednesday 26 November 1997