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50. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 218.
51. V. Sackville-West, ‘Black Tarn’, Collected Poems, pp. 137–39.
52. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 218.
53. Vita’s diary, 3 January 1924, Lilly Library.
54. Ibid.
55. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 217.
56. Ibid., pp. 219–20.
57. Ibid., p. 220.
58. Ibid., p. 219.
59. Vita’s diary, 8 March 1924, Lilly Library.
60. Quoted in the Guardian, 13 July 2008.
61. Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska, eds, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Hutchinson & Co., London, 1984, repr. Virago, 1992), p. 61.
62. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 187.
63. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2, p. 239.
64. Vita’s diary, 17 August 1926, Lilly Library.
65. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2, p. 235.
66. Sproles, Desiring Women, p. 49.
67. V. Sackville-West, ‘Self-Epitaph, Composed by an Honest Sensualist’, Collected Poems, p. 253.
68. Woolf, Virginia, Between the Acts (The Hogarth Press, London, 1941, repr. Oxford World Classics, 1998), p. 107.
69. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3, p. 203.
70. Woolf, Orlando, pp. 20, 70.
71. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2, p. 307.
72. Ibid., pp. 216–17.
73. Ibid., p. 225.
74. Vita to Harold, 19 December 1922, Lilly Library.
75. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3, p. 52.
76. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 56.
77. Vita to Harold, 30 November 1926, Lilly Library.
78. See Cross and Ravenscroft-Hulme, Vita Sackville-West: A Bibliography, p. 86.
79. Vita to Enid Bagnold (Jones), 15 September 1933, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, Washington State University Library, collection number: Cage 4688.
80. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 53.
81. Cross and Ravenscroft-Hulme, Vita Sackville-West: A Bibliography, p. 30.
82. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2, p. 313.
83. Ibid., Vol. 5, p. 328.
84. Ibid., Vol. 2, p. 313.
85. Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (Chatto & Windus, London, 1996, repr. Vintage, London, 1997), p. 517.
86. Glendinning, Vita, p. 140.
87. Lee, Virginia Woolf, p. 499.
88. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 54.
89. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3, p. 52.
90. Harold to Vita, 8 January 1926, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 149.
91. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 318.
92. Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 136.
93. Vita to Harold, 12 July 1928, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 198.
94. Vita to Harold, 13 December 1928, quoted in ibid.
95. Vita to Harold, 16 November 1922, quoted in ibid., p. 114.
96. V. Sackville-West, ‘Bitterness’, Collected Poems, pp. 290–91.
97. V. Sackville-West, The Heir, p. 109.
98. V. Sackville-West, Grey Wethers, p. 64.
99. Harold to Vita, 2 September 1923, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 123.
100. V. Sackville-West, Grey Wethers, p. 306.
101. Harold to Vita, 18 September 1921, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 113.
102. Glendinning, Vita, p. 103.
103. V. Sackville-West, Pepita, p. 258.
104. Alsop, Lady Sackville, pp. 206, 208.
105. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3, p. 57.
106. V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, p. 115.
107. V. Sackville-West, ‘Persia’, Collected Poems, p. 173.
108. V. Sackville-West, ‘At Rhey [Rhages]’, Collected Poems, p. 177.
109. V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, p. 61.
110. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 120.
111. Ibid., p. 197.
112. Ibid., p. 127.
113. V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, p. 129.
114. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 133.
115. V. Sackville-West, ‘Madame Dieulafoy’, Vogue, June 1926, p. 77.
116. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 131.
117. V. Sackville-West, The Land (Spring), Collected Poems, p. 56.
118. John Drinkwater, Observer, 2 January 1927.
119. Vita’s diary, 10 October 1926, Lilly Library.
120. Quoted in Lee, Virginia Woolf, p. 502 (1 March 1926).
121. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 162.
122. V. Sackville-West, ‘Year’s End’, Collected Poems, pp. 168–69.
123. V. Sackville-West, ‘A Bowl of Blue Beads’, Collected Poems, p. 178.
124. Nicolson, Sissinghurst, p. 292.
125. See Cressida Connolly, The Rare and the Beautiful: The Lives of the Garmans (Fourth Estate, London, 2004), p. 70.
126. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3, p. 188.
127. Connolly, The Rare and the Beautiful, p. 71.
128. Victoria Sackville, ‘Book of Happy Reminiscences’, Lilly Library.
129. Vita to Harold, 17 August 1926, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 159.
130. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 189.
131. Vita’s diary, ‘Memoranda’, February 1927, Lilly Library.
132. Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 148.
133. Ibid., p. 149.
134. Vita’s diary, 3 September 1927, Lilly Library.
135. V. Sackville-West, King’s Daughter (The Hogarth Press, London, 1929), p. 35.
136. Ibid., p. 37.
137. Connolly, The Rare and the Beautiful, p. 75.
138. Glendinning, Vita, p. 180.
139. Connolly, The Rare and the Beautiful, p. 75.
140. Vita to Harold, 7 November 1927, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 187.
141. Connolly, The Rare and the Beautiful, p. 78.
142. Harold to Vita, 23 October 1927, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 184.
143. Roy Campbell, The Georgiad (Boriswood Ltd, London, 1931).
144. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 256.
145. Ibid., p. 252.
146. Glendinning, Vita, p. 183.
147. Ibid., p. 186.
148. Campbell, The Georgiad.
149. Ibid.
150. Vita to Harold, 15 January 1952, Lilly Library.
151. Vita’s diary, 19 December 1927, Lilly Library.
152. Caws, ed., Selected Writings, p. 68.
153. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 265; Montreal Gazette, 15 August 1955.
154. Robert Sackville-West, Inheritance, p. 231.
155. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3, p. 175.
156. Ibid., p. 191.
157. Ibid., p. 174.
158. Glendinning, Vita, p. 205.
159. Vita to Harold, 11 October 1928, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 206.
160. Radclyffe Hall to Vita, 16 December 1928, Dobkin Collection, Glenn Horowitz, New York.
161. Glendinning, Vita, pp. 205–06.
162. V. Sackville-West, King’s Daughter, p. 36.
163. Vita to Harold, 18 April 1928, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 193.
164. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3, p. 180.
165. Hilda Matheson to Vita, 15 January 1929 and 6 February 1929, quoted in Michael Carney, Stoker: The Life of Hilda Matheson OBE 1888–1940 (Published by the author, Llangynog, 1999), p. 57.
166. Ibid., p. 49; Glendinning, Vita, p. 213.
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167. Vita to Harold, 24 June 1928, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 196.
168. Carney, Stoker, p. 44.
169. Ibid., p. 49.
170. Ibid.
171. Ibid., p. 51.
172. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3, p. 239.
173. Nicolson, ed., The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. IV (repr. Hogarth Press, London, 1994), p. 110.
174. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3, p. 267.
175. Vita’s diary, 25 July 1929, Lilly Library.
176. 1 August 1929, ibid.
177. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 359.
178. Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 162.
179. Vita’s diary, 1928, Memorandum, Lilly Library.
180. Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 163.
181. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 361.
182. Carney, Stoker, p. 55.
183. Ibid., p. 90.
184. V. Sackville-West, Gottfried Künstler, p. 143.
V THE LAND AND THE GARDEN
1. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sissinghurst Castle’, House & Garden, October/November 1950, p. 55.
2. Caws, ed., Selected Writings, p. 201.
3. Stevens, V. Sackville-West, p. 117.
4. V. Sackville-West, Family History, p. 194.
5. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 109.
6. V. Sackville-West, King’s Daughter, p. 35.
7. V. Sackville-West, The Edwardians, p. 247.
8. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 345.
9. Sackville-West, Inheritance, p. 239.
10. V. Sackville-West, The Edwardians, pp. 121–22.
11. V. Sackville-West, ‘Knole’, Spectator, 14 October 1943, p. 8.
12. V. Sackville-West, The Garden, p. 14.
13. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sissinghurst Castle’.
14. Nicolson, Sissinghurst, p. 272.
15. Vita to Harold, 23 October 1920, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 228.
16. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sissinghurst Castle’.
17. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 111.
18. Ibid.
19. Woolf, Downhill All the Way, p. 112.
20. Anne Scott-James, Sissinghurst: The Making of a Garden (Michael Joseph, London, 1974, repr. 1981), p. 53; Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, p. 87.
21. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sissinghurst’, Collected Poems, p. 111.
22. V. Sackville-West, The Heir, p. 65.
23. V. Sackville-West, Knole and the Sackvilles, p. 35.
24. Harold to Vita, 24 April 1930, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 227–28.
25. Glendinning, Vita, p. 224.
26. V. Sackville-West, ‘Absence’, Collected Poems, p. 254.
27. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sissinghurst’, Collected Poems, p. 111.
28. V. Sackville-West, Daughter of France (Michael Joseph, London, 1959), p. 199.
29. V. Sackville-West, No Signposts in the Sea (Michael Joseph, London, 1961), p. 87.
30. Nigel Nicolson, Long Life: Memoirs (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1997), p. 209.
31. Ibid., p. 210.
32. Scott-James, The Making of a Garden, p. 67.
33. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, p. 87.
34. Vita to Harold, 27 February 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 22.
35. Scott-James, The Making of a Garden, p. 67.
36. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sissinghurst’, Collected Poems, p. 111.
37. V. Sackville-West, Family History, p. 193.
38. V. Sackville-West, All Passion Spent, p. 160.
39. V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, p. 111.
40. V. Sackville-West, All Passion Spent, pp. 58–9.
41. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sissinghurst Castle’.
42. Vita to Harold, 23 October 1930, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 228.
43. Nicolson, Sissinghurst, p. 291.
44. Nancy MacKnight, Dearest Andrew: Letters from V. Sackville-West to Andrew Reiber, 1951–1962 (Michael Joseph, London, 1980), p. 83.
45. Philip Hoare, Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1990), p. 279.
46. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 94.
47. Scott-James, The Making of a Garden, pp. 57–60; V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, p. 77.
48. Glendinning, Vita, p. 403.
49. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 228.
50. Harold Nicolson’s diary, 26 December 1943.
51. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sissinghurst Castle’, p. 92.
52. Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 173.
53. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sharawadji’, Spectator, 13 January 1944, p. 9.
54. Zoob, Caroline, Virginia Woolf’s Garden (Jacqui Small, London, 2013).
55. Clive Bell to Lyn Newman, 13 August 1931, Lyn Newman papers, St John’s College, Cambridge.
56. V. Sackville-West, ‘The Lake’, Country Notes (Michael Joseph, London, 1939).
57. Harold Nicolson’s diary, 20 March 1932.
58. Nigel Nicolson, Long Life, p. 69.
59. Trefusis, Broderie Anglaise, pp. 49–50.
60. V. Sackville-West, Family History, p. 99.
61. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 384.
62. Glendinning, Vita, p. 241.
63. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 116.
64. V. Sackville-West, Aphra Behn, p. 12.
65. Vita to Harold, 26 November 1919, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 101.
66. Quoted in Kent & Sussex Courier, 21 June 2013.
67. Spectator, 21 January 1922.
68. Stevens, V. Sackville-West, p. 48.
69. V. Sackville-West, ‘Tess’, Collected Poems, p. 249.
70. Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 186.
71. V. Sackville-West, The Garden, p. 29.
72. Vita to Nancy Noyes, 9 May 1930, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, Washington State University Library, collection number: Cage 4688.
73. Review of Twelve Days, Daily Telegraph, undated, 1928.
74. V. Sackville-West, Country Notes, p. 70; Pomeroy, p. 288.
75. V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, p. 52.
76. Woolf, Downhill All the Way, p. 158.
77. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, p. 39.
78. V. Sackville-West, Andrew Marvell (Faber & Faber, London, 1929), p. 27.
79. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3, p. 306.
80. Glendinning, Vita, p. 268.
81. Ibid., p. 177.
82. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, p. 7.
83. Stevens, V. Sackville-West, p. 36.
84. Pomeroy, p. 285.
85. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3, p. 330.
86. V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, p. 28.
87. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, p. 134.
88. James Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 2, pp. 33–4.
89. Glendinning, Vita, p. 257.
90. Vita to Harold, 14 February 1933, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 238.
91. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 388.
92. Vita’s diary, 15 February 1933, Lilly Library.
93. Glendinning, Vita, p. 255.
94. Vita’s diary, 4 February 1933, Lilly Library.
95. Vita to Harold, 14 February 1933, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 238.
96. Vita’s diary, 28 January 1933, Lilly Library.
97. Vita’s diary, 7 February 1933, Lilly Library.
98. Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 175.
99. Vita’s diary, 21 February 1933, Lilly Library.
100. Ibid., 20 February 1933.
101. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 2, p. 38.
102. V. Sackville-West, ‘In New England’, Collected Poems, p. 212.
103. DeSalvo
and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 394.
104. Vita’s diary, 27 February 1933, Lilly Library.
105. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 391.
106. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 2, p. 38.
107. Harold to Vita, 23 February 1933, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 238.
108. Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 178; Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 2, p. 39.
109. Glendinning, Vita, p. 238.
110. V. Sackville-West, ‘Valediction’, Collected Poems, p. 298.
111. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, p. 7.
112. V. Sackville-West, Chatterton, p. 34.
113. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 2, p. 3.
114. Stanley Olson, ed., Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters 1930–1964 (Penguin, London, 1984), p. 40.
115. V. Sackville-West, Family History, p. 159.
116. V. Sackville-West, ‘Warning’, Collected Poems, p. 297.
117. V. Sackville-West, Family History, p. 75.
118. Ibid., p. 197.
119. V. Sackville-West, ‘Provence’, Collected Poems, p. 205.
120. Glendinning, Vita, p. 249.
121. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 382.
122. V. Sackville-West, ‘Tess’, Collected Poems, p. 249.
123. V. Sackville-West, ‘Valediction’, Collected Poems, p. 298.
124. Vita to Harold, 25 September 1934, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 255.
125. Scott-James, The Making of a Garden, p. 49.
126. Olson, ed., Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters, p. 55.
127. Diary poem, 16 May 1933, quoted in Glendinning, Vita, p. 280.
128. V. Sackville-West, The Dark Island, p. 33.
129. V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, p. 82.
130. Vita to Harold, 30 January 1913, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 33; DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, pp. 138–39.
131. Virginia Woolf to Vita, 28 April 1931.
132. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 2, p. 25.
133. Olson, ed., Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters, p. 33.
134. Ibid., p. 27.
135. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 401.
136. Olson, ed., Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters, pp. 39–40.
137. Ibid.
138. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sissinghurst Castle’, p. 92.
139. V. Sackville-West, Even More for Your Garden (Michael Joseph, London, 1958, repr. Frances Lincoln, London, 2004), p. 122.
140. V. Sackville-West, The Women’s Land Army (Michael Joseph, London, 1944), p. 23.