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...Its seasonal opening is on Easter Sunday. wollertonoldhallgarden.com Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West planted spring bulbs in their thousands and today the country...
...Virginia Woolf, beset by the flu, writes to her lover Vita Sackville-West in 1926: “I’m so furious: I was to begin that wretched novel [To the Lighthouse] today, and now bed and tea and toast and the usual...
...creative director Ian Griffiths observed that all collections are, to some degree, “autobiographical” — in this case he took inspiration from his garden in Suffolk, as well as the Women’s Land Army and Vita-Sackville...
...Among the prizes of his book collection is an inscribed copy of Orlando that once belonged to Vita Sackville-West, the novel’s muse....
...She must have learnt some German while being schooled at home, but she was greatly helped by her accomplished cousin Edward Sackville-West, who knew the language well....
...Lane Fox was right to point out that Vita Sackville-West, with her relative Edward Sackville-West, translated Rilke’s Duineser Elegien from the German....
...In 1926, writing to Vita Sackville-West, Woolf conceded that he was “the devastation of all hearts”, and “sprightly as an elf”, but those were the limits of the seduction....
...On a charmed evening at Sissinghurst, in his mother Vita Sackville-West’s marvellous rose garden, Nigel Nicolson once complained to me that the National Trust gardeners had left deadheads on the rosebushes...
...“One sets out with the intention of writing about something else,” wrote Vita Sackville-West in the 1950s, looking out in June on superb roses in her garden at Sissinghurst Castle, “and then one’s pen takes...
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...Despite the common presumption that the translation of the Duino Elegies was a failure, Vita Sackville-West’s Rilke (“Vita was lost in translation”, Letters, October 29; and “A burst of Sissinghurst”, House...
...“People say businesses go to Sackville Street to die,” writes Darkshire in Once Upon a Tome, to explain its “slightly unnerving air.”...
...One of Sackville-West’s lovers was Virginia Woolf, who was a frequent visitor to Sissinghurst. In the garden, Sackville-West and Nicolson worked as a team....
...Another famed expat, Violet Trefusis – lover of my grandmother Vita Sackville-West – is dubbed “a colourful old parrot”....
...Accompanied by the mournful soprano voice of opera singer Nadine Sierra, models walked out in tailoring that was less Vita Sackville-West and more utilitarian — suits cut from blue denim and washed gabardine...
...The designer, who has steeped his brand in the lore of the early-20th century English upper classes, began this season with the letters that aristocratic author Vita Sackville-West and her childhood friend...
...Inspired by Woolf’s love affair with Vita Sackville-West, the story has a joyousness to it — a paean to creative and personal freedom....
...She prepared for her first major surgery with her usual military precision, getting up at 5.30am with a friend to go running at Knole, Vita Sackville-West’s former home, near her house in Sevenoaks, where...
...An L-shaped backyard in London is not Sissinghurst and I will never be Vita Sackville-West, however whimsical my summer wardrobe becomes....
...He shows me the edition sent to Vita Sackville-West, to whom the book was dedicated by her then lover....
...The parade of visitors to Egypt over the centuries offers a cast of characters as diverse as an Agatha Christie novel — Napoleon, Florence Nightingale, Mark Twain, Thackeray, Gustave Flaubert, Vita Sackville...
...Letter in response to this article: Why legroom is also part of airlines’ falling emissions / From Sackville Currie, Fort Lauderdale, FL, US...
...spread: into literary London, for instance, where novelist Rebecca West served as part-muse, part-aunt to Gunther, while the bisexual Jimmy Sheean befriended the top-drawer bohemians Duncan Grant and Eddy Sackville-West...
...The Rentons are a fascinating match for that other husband-and-wife team, Harold Nicolson, more the designer, and Vita Sackville-West, the planter and gardener at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent in the same...
...Letters, diary entries and excerpts from Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Duncan Grant also feature....
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