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Vita Sackville-West

Died in 1962

Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) was born at Knole, the large family house in Kent, which she could not inherit because she was a girl; this loss marks several of her books. Married in 1913 to the diplomat Harold Nicolson, in an arrangement in which each accepted the other's affairs, she was close to Virginia Woolf, who made her the model for one of her novels. A prize-winning poet in 1927, a novelist and a gardening columnist for a weekly, she created with her husband the garden at Sissinghurst, bought in 1930.

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