Vita Sackville-West

  Daughter of France. London: Michael Joseph; New York: Doubleday, 1949.

  The Eagle and The Dove. London: Michael Joseph, 1943; New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1944.

  The Easter Party. London: Michael Joseph; New York: Doubleday, 1953.

  The Edwardians. London: Hogarth Press. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1930.

  “The Engagement,” Tatler, October 22, 1930, pp. 44–45, 102, 104.

  English Country Houses. London: Collins, 1941.

  Faces: Profiles of Dogs (with photographs by Laelia Goehr). Harvill Press, London; New York: Doubleday, 1962.

  Family History. London: Hogarth Press; New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1932.

  The Garden. London: Michael Joseph, 1946.

  Grand Canyon. London: Michael Joseph; New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942.

  In Your Garden. London: Michael Joseph, 1951.

  A Joy of Gardening: A Selection for Americans, ed. Hermine Popper. New York: Harper, 1958.

  Knole and the Sackvilles. London: William Heinemann, 1922.

  No Signposts in the Sea. London: Michael Joseph; New York: Doubleday, 1961.

  Passenger to Teheran. London: Hogarth Press, 1926; second edition, Cockbird Press, Heathfield, 1990.

  Pepita. London: Hogarth Press; New York: Doubleday, 1937.

  Poems of East and West. London: Bodley Head, 1917.

  Saint Joan of Arc. London: Cobden, Sanderson; New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1936.

  Seducers in Ecuador. London: Hogarth Press, 1924; New York: Doran, 1925; Penguin Books, 1989.

  Some Tendencies of Modern English Poetry, Essays by Divers Hands (1917), Royal Society of Literature, London.

  Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1932.

  Twelve Days. London: Hogarth press, 1928.

  INDEX

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  Aden

  Amiens, France

  animals

  Avignon, France

  Bagnold, Enid

  Bakhtiari region

  see also Persia

  BBC

  Bell, Clive

  Bell, Gertrude

  Bell, Vanessa

  “B.M.” (Bonne Maman)

  see also Sackville-West, Victoria

  Braithwaite, R. B. (philosopher, associated with logical positivism)

  Brett, Dorothy

  Bridges, Robert

  British Legation

  Bryn Mawr College

  Buckingham Palace

  Burlington magazine

  Cadogan Gardens

  Cambodge

  Campbell, Kenneth Hallyburton

  Campbell, Mary

  Cézanne

  Chatterton, Thomas

  Clark, Lady

  color (as important element in the work of Vita Sackville-West)

  Convent of St. Joseph

  Cowper, William

  Dane, Clemence (Winifred Ashton)

  Dansey, Margaret (Pat)

  Dartmouth, England

  Darwin, Gwen (Raverat)

  de la Mare, Walter

  Dodd, Marion

  dogs

  Cocker Spaniels

  Collies

  Elk Hounds

  Great Danes

  Mongrels

  Salukis

  Donne, John

  Dorset, Frances

  Dover, England

  Drummond, Bunny

  Dunn, Esther

  Duran, Pepita

  Dyment, Clifford

  D’Youville College

  Ebury Street

  Egypt

  Eliot, T. S.

  Eve

  see also Keppel, Violet

  Falmouth, England

  Femina prize

  feminism

  Frost, Robert

  Fry, Roger

  gardening

  Gardner Museum

  Gaul, Otto

  Glendinning, Victoria

  Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West

  Gloucester, England

  Grosvenor, Rosamund

  Hadji, see Nicolson, Harold

  Hall, Radclyffe

  The Well of Loneliness

  Harrison, Ruth

  Hawthornden prize

  Hilatine, General

  Hindhead, England

  Hogarth Press

  see also Woolf, Virginia

  Hopkins, Roland

  Hutchinson, Mary

  Huxley, Aldous

  Iraq

  Irons, Evelyn

  Jeffers, Robinson

  Jones, Roderick

  Joseph, Michael

  Julian

  see also Sackville-West, Vita

  Kent, England

  Keppel, Alice

  Keppel, George

  Keppel, Violet

  Keynes, John Maynard

  Knole

  see also Sackville-West, Vita

  Lady Windermere’s Fan

  Lamont, Edith

  landscapes

  Lawrence, D. H.

  Lees-Milne, Alvilde

  Lincoln, England

  Lindsay, Elizabeth

  Lippman, Walter

  Long Barn

  Lowndes, Marie Adelaide Belloc

  Luhan, Mabel Dodge

  Lushka

  see also Keppel, Violet

  MacNeice, Louis

  Manning, Helen Taft

  Mar, see Sackville-West, Vita

  Marvell, Andrew

  Matheson, Hilda

  Mayne, Ethel

  McCormick, Mrs. Robert

  Middleton, George

  Mitya

  see also Keppel, Violet

  Monte Carlo

  Moore, George

  Morgan, Helen

  Morgan, J.P.

  Mortimer, Raymond

  National Trust

  Nervi, Italy

  New York Times

  Nicolson, Benedict

  Nicolson, Harold

  Nicolson, Nigel

  Long Life

  Portrait of a Marriage

  Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

  Paris, France

  Persepolis, Persia

  Persia

  Phelps, William Lyon

  Polperro, Italy

  Pound, Ezra

  Provence, France

  Prufrock, Alfred

  Pucci, Orazio

  Pym, Violet (Vi)

  Qaleh Madrasseh

  Rainbow

  Rinder, Olive

  Roosevelt, Kermit

  Royal Society of Literature award

  Russia

  Sackville, Thomas

  Sackville-West, Edward

  Sackville-West, Lionel

  Sackville-West, Victoria

  “Book of Reminiscences”

  Sackville-West, Vita

  American lecture tour

  as model for Orlando

  critical writing

  diaries

  early works

  emotional energy in work

  family history

  letter writing

  love affairs

  on flowers

  on gardening

  on literary criticism

  on nature

  on philology

  on poetic imagery

  on poetry/poetic craft

  on rural vs. urban life

  poetry

  relationship with her mother

  sexuality

  travel writings

  view of self

  see “The Poetry Reading”

  Works

  All Passion Spent

  Lady Slane

  Andrew Marvell

  Aphra Behn: The Incomparable Astrea

  Beginnings

  Book of a Thousand Pities

  C
hallenge

  “Changes in English Social Life”

  The Dark Island

  “D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf”

  Dream Book

  Easter Party

  The Edwardians

  Eight Poems

  “The Engagement”

  Faces

  Family History

  “French Idea of Gardening”

  “The Garden”

  Grand Canyon

  “The Heir”

  Knole and the Sackvilles

  La Grande Mademoiselle

  “The Land”

  Man in the Iron Mask

  “The Modern Spirit of Literature”

  “Novels and Novelists”

  “The Novice to her Lover”

  “On Writing a Novel”

  Passenger to Teheran

  Pepita

  “The Poet”

  “The Poetry Reading”

  “Reddin”

  Saint Joan of Arc

  Seducers in Ecuador

  “Sissinghurst”

  “Some Tendencies of Modern English Poetry”

  “Temple of Love”

  Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour

  “Travels through Persia”

  Twelve Days

  Sargent, John Singer

  Scott, Geoffrey

  Scott, Sir John Murray (“Seery”)

  7 Oaks Literary Society

  Shakespeare

  Sherfield, England

  Sissinghurst Castle

  Sitwell, Edith

  Smart, Christopher

  Smith College

  Smith, Lionel

  Society of Authors

  Sonning, England

  St. Aubyn, Gwen

  St. John, Christopher

  St. Teresa

  Statesman & Empire Review

  Sumurun (Lord Sackville-West’s yacht)

  Teheran

  Thomas, Dylan

  Tinker, Chauncey

  Trefusis, Denys

  Trefusis, Violet Keppel

  see also Keppel, Violet

  Trollope, Anthony

  United States

  Val d’Isere, France

  Venice, Italy

  Verona, Italy

  Voigt, Margaret Goldsmith

  Walpole, Horace

  Walpole, Hugh

  Wellesley, Dorothy

  Wells, Leonard

  Wolfe, Eugenia

  Woolf, Virginia

  Mrs. Dalloway

  Orlando

  World War II

  Wright, Orville

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