V. Sackville-West was born into one of the oldest families of England, the Sackvilles, whose ancestral estate, Knole, was a gift to poet and dramatist Thomas Sackville (1536-1608) from his cousin Eliz...
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Vita Sackville-West began Passenger to Teheran (1926) by suggesting that because "travel is the most private of pleasures," writing about that pleasure is suspect: "There would seem to be something de...
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V(ictoria) (Mary) Sackville-West