NOTES

Introduction

1. Nigel Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage. London: Futura, 1974, p. 27.

2. Ibid., p. 38.

3. Ibid., p. 105.

4. Ibid., p. 106.

5. Ibid., p. 150.

6. October 25, 1918.

7. See the description of Julian in Challenge.

8. Diary entry, Paris, February 14, 1920.

9. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Traumann, eds., Letters of Virginia Woolf. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979, vol 5: 8 November, 1932.

10. Ibid., vol. 3, p. 302.

11. Nicolson, Portrait, p. 202.

12. Anne Olivier Bell, ed., assisted by Andrew McNeillie. The Diaries of Virginia Woolf. London and New York: Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, vol. 5, p. 111.

13. Ibid., vol. 1 June 27, 1940, p. 305.

14. Nicolson, Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol.6, March 4, 1941, p. 476.

15. Nigel Nicolson, ed., Vita and Harold: the Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. New York: Putnam’s, 1992, p. 410.

16. Sarah Ruth Watson, V. Sackville-West. New York: Twayne, 1972, p. 22.

17. Michael Stevens, Vita Sackville-West: A Critical Biography. New York: Scribner’s, 1974, p. 14.

18. Nicolson, Vita and Harold, p. 42.

19. Nicolson, Portrait, p. 175.

20. Nicolson, Vita and Harold, p. 336.

21. Victoria Glendinning, Vita: A Biography of Vita Sackville-West. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983, p. 142.

22. Ibid., p. 143.

23. Ibid., loc. cit.

24. All Passion Spent, p. 167.

25. Glendinning, p. 341.

26. Ibid., p. 241.

27. Stevens, p. 14.

28. Glendinning, p. 375.

Part I

1. Nicolson, Portrait, p. 26.

2. Ibid., p. 18.

Part III

1. Nicolson, Vita and Harold, p. 179.

Part IV

1. Nicolson, in Sackville-West’s Passenger to Teheran, p. 20.

2. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, p. 81

3. Nicolson in Sackville-West’s Passenger to Teheran (1990), p. 22.

4. Sackville-West in Nicolson and Trautman’s Letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. III, p. 533.

Part VI

1. Vita Sackville-West, Knole and the Sackvilles (London: William Heinemann, 1922), p. 36. Hereafter all subsequent references to this work will be abbreviated as KS.

2. Vita Sackville-West, English Country Houses (London: Prion, 1941), pp. 40–43, 46.

3. Victoria Glendinning, Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson; New York: Knopf, 1983), p. 389.

4. From 1947 edition (London: Lindsay Drummond).

5. Country Notes (London: Michael Joseph, 1939; New York: Harper, 1940), p. 14. Hereafter all subsequent references to this work will be abbreviated as CN.

6. CN, p. 113.

Part VII

1. The short story “The Other Two” can be found in Descent of Man and other Stories (New York: Scribner’s, 1904).

2. “The Poet” was included in Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour, published by Doubleday, Doran in 1932, in London and New York.

3. See also Victoria Glendinning, Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; New York: Knopf, 1983).

Part VIII

1. Quentin Bell, “A Cézanne in the Hedge,” in Hugh Lee, ed., A Cézanne in the Hedge and other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury (London: Collins and Brown, 1992), pp. 136–139.

2. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, eds. Letters of Virginia Woolf (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 6 vols., 1975–1980), vol. 2, p. 230.

3. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautman, ed. Letters of Virginia Woolf (New York and London: Harcourt Brace, 1979), vol. 5, pp. 110, 100.

Part IX

1. Victoria Glendinning, Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West (London: Wiederfeld and Nicolson; New York: Knopf, 1983), p. 242.

2. See John Richardson, Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters. (New York: Random House, 2001), on “Vita’s Muddles,” pp. 112–122.

Part X

1. In a letter to Jacques Raverat, December 26, 1924 (Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautman, ed. Letters of Virginia Woolf (New York and London: Harcourt Brace, 1979), vol. 5, p 150.

Part XI

1. Vita Sackville-West, Aphra Behn: the Incomparable Astrea (New York: Russell & Russell, 1927), pp. 85–86.

2. Ibid., p. 86.

3. Ibid., pp. 16, 18.

4. Vita Sackville-West, The Edwardians (New York: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1930), p. 1.

5. Vita Sackville-West, Family History (London: Hogarth Press, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1932), p. 315.

6. Vita Sackville-West, The Dark Island (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1936), pp. 101–102.

7. Ibid., p. 260.

8. Vita Sackville-West, Saint Joan of Arc: Born January 6, 1412, Burned as a Heretic, May 30, 1431, Canonized as a Saint, May 6, 1920 (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1938), p. 344.

9. Ibid., p. 223

10. Victoria Glendinning, Vita: The Life Of Vita Sackville-West (New York: Knopf, London: Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 1983), p. 260.

11. Vita Sackville-West, Grand Canyon (London: Michael Joseph, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942), p. 177.

12. Ibid., p. 171.

13. Vita Sackville-West, The Easter Party (New York: Doubleday, 1953), p. 398.

14. Ibid., 228–229.

15. Nigel Nicholson, ed., Vita and Harold: THe Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson (New York: Putman, 1992), p. 424.

16. Vita Sackville-West, Daughter of France: The Life of Anne Marie Louise d’Orléans 1627–1693 (London: Michael Joseph, 1959), p. 5.

17. Ibid., p. 220.

18. Ibid., p. 299.

19. Vita Sackville-West, No Signposts in the Sea (London: Michael Joseph, New York: Doubleday, 1961), p. 156.