Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) was an English novelist, poet, journalist, biographer, and celebrated gardener. Raised at Knole, her family's ancestral estate in Kent, she became a prolific and commercially successful writer whose work frequently explored independence, social convention, identity, and the restrictions placed upon women. She twice won the Hawthornden Prize for poetry and was also closely associated with Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury circle. Later in life, Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson created the renowned gardens at Sissinghurst Castle. All Passion Spent and The Edwardians remain among her best-known novels.