GIVEN VITA WAS christened Victoria Sackville-West, a name she shared with her mother until the latter became Victoria Sackville when Lionel Sackville-West succeeded his uncle as 3rd Baron Sackville in 1908, I have referred to Vita throughout these notes simply as ‘Vita’ or, in her role as author, ‘V. Sackville-West’, as she preferred; for these purposes her mother is ‘Victoria Sackville’. In instances where annotation would simply reiterate information contained within the text, I have resisted annotating quotations from Vita’s diaries held in the Lilly Library of Indiana University in Bloomington. Wherever possible where primary sources have been published – and many have, beginning with Nigel Nicolson’s publication of Vita’s confessional autobiography in Portrait of a Marriage – I have directed the reader towards the published source.
1. Vita to Harold, 30 July 1919, quoted in Nigel Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West & Harold Nicolson 1910–1962 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1992), p. 97.
2. Vita to Harold, 13 December 1928, quoted in ibid., p. 210.
3. V. Sackville-West, The Garden (Michael Joseph, London, 1946), p. 10.
4. V. Sackville-West, In Your Garden (Michael Joseph, London, 1951), p. 49.
5. Jane Brown, Vita’s Other World: A Gardening Biography of V. Sackville-West (Viking, London, 1985), p. 87.
6. V. Sackville-West, Grand Canyon (Michael Joseph, London, 1942), p. 206.
7. Sackville-West/Evelyn Irons Archive, The Dobkin Collection of Feminism and Judaica, Dobkin Collection Item 4655540, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York.
8. V. Sackville-West, All Passion Spent (The Hogarth Press, London, 1931), p. 268.
9. Victoria Glendinning, Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1983, repr. Penguin, London, 1984), p. 195.
10. Vita to Margaret Howard, undated, quoted in Observer, 13 July 2008.
11. Victoria Sackville diary, 27 June 1890, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.
12. Harold to Vita, 12 May 1926 and 21 December 1944, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, pp. 139, 360.
13. V. Sackville-West, The Diary of Lady Anne Clifford (William Heinemann, London, 1923), p. xxiv.
14. V. Sackville-West, The Eagle and the Dove (Michael Joseph, London, 1943), p. 22.
15. Ibid.
16. V. Sackville-West, ‘Black Tarn’, Collected Poems: Volume One (The Hogarth Press, London, 1933), p. 139.
1. Calculation based on £5 in 1912 being equivalent to the purchasing power in 2014 of £330.
2. Susan Mary Alsop, Lady Sackville: A Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1978), p. 147.
3. Violet Trefusis, Don’t Look Round (Hutchinson, London, 1952), p. 43.
4. The New York Times, 27 June 1913.
5. Robert Sackville-West, Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles (Bloomsbury, London, 2010), p. 198.
6. Victoria Sackville, ‘The Book of Happy Reminiscences for my Old Age, Started on my 61st Birthday, 23rd Sept. 1922’, Lilly Library.
7. Alsop, Lady Sackville, p. 172.
8. Ibid.
9. Sackville-West, Inheritance, p. 212.
10. The New York Times, 27 June 1913.
11. Sue Fox and Sarah Funke, Vita Sackville-West (catalogue of manuscript material), Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (New York, 2004), p. 24.
12. Victoria Sackville diary, 17 June 1904, Lilly Library.
13. Victoria Sackville, ‘Book of Happy Reminiscences’, Lilly Library.
14. V. Sackville-West, The Edwardians (The Hogarth Press, London, 1930), p. 100.
15. Alsop, Lady Sackville, p. 160.
16. V. Sackville-West, Pepita (The Hogarth Press, London, 1937), p. 230.
17. V. Sackville-West, The Death of Noble Godavary and Gottfried Künstler (Ernest Benn, London, 1932), p. 148.
18. Mary Ann Caws, ed., Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings (Palgrave, New York, 2002), p. 59.
19. Vita’s diary, 7 July 1913, Lilly Library.
20. Glendinning, Vita, p. 124.
1. V. Sackville-West, The Edwardians, p. 9.
2. Ibid., pp. 9–10.
3. V. Sackville-West, English Country Houses (William Collins, London, 1941), p. 42.
4. V. Sackville-West, The Heir: A Love Story (William Heinemann, London, 1922; Virago repr. 1987), p. 52.
5. Victoria Sackville, ‘Book of Happy Reminiscences’, Lilly Library.
6. Ibid.
7. V. Sackville-West, ‘Night’, Collected Poems, p. 144.
8. V. Sackville-West, The Edwardians, p. 51.
9. V. Sackville-West, Knole and the Sackvilles (William Heinemann, London, 1922), p. 2.
10. Ibid., p. 20.
11. V. Sackville-West, ‘April’, Collected Poems, p. 150.
12. Victoria Sackville, ‘Book of Happy Reminiscences’, Lilly Library.
13. V. Sackville-West, Knole and the Sackvilles, p. 12.
14. Nigel Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1973, repr. 1990), p. 20.
15. V. Sackville-West, Knole and the Sackvilles, p. 11.
16. Victoria Sackville diary, 17 September 1894, Lilly Library.
17. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 17.
18. V. Sackville-West, Pepita, p. 181.
19. Alsop, Lady Sackville, p. 117.
20. V. Sackville-West, The Easter Party (Michael Joseph, London, 1953), p. 189.
21. Victoria Sackville diary, 9 March 1897, Lilly Library.
22. Victoria Sackville, ‘Book of Happy Reminiscences’, Lilly Library.
23. Trefusis, Violet, Broderie Anglaise (English trans., Methuen, London, 1986, repr. Minerva, London, 1992), p. 61.
24. Victoria Sackville diary, 9 March 1898, Lilly Library.
25. V. Sackville-West, Pepita, p. 210.
26. Victoria Sackville diary, 6 May 1903, Lilly Library.
27. V. Sackville-West, ‘Beechwoods at Knole’, Collected Poems, p. 142.
28. V. Sackville-West, Pepita, p. 201.
29. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 10.
30. Victoria Sackville diary, 20 February 1903, Lilly Library.
31. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 19.
32. Victoria Sackville diary, 1 August 1897, Lilly Library.
33. Diana Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter (HarperCollins, London, 1996, repr. Flamingo, London, 1997), p. 82.
34. Fox and Funke, Vita Sackville-West, p. 14.
35. Vita to Victoria Sackville, undated, Berg Collection (Album 1), New York Public Library.
36. V. Sackville-West, The Dark Island (The Hogarth Press, London, 1934), p. 42.
37. Victoria Sackville diary, 27 October 1897, Lilly Library.
38. Alsop, Lady Sackville, p. 139.
39. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 16.
40. Sackville-West, Inheritance, p. 184.
41. V. Sackville-West, The Edwardians, p. 11.
42. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, p. 42.
43. Michael Stevens, V. Sackville-West (Michael Joseph, London, 1973), p. 116.
44. Alsop, Lady Sackville, p. 120.
45. Sackville-West, Inheritance, p. 191.
46. V. Sackville-West, ‘The Edwardians Below Stairs’, Vogue, 25 November 1931, p. 55.
47. V. Sackville-West, The Edwardians, p. 24.
48. Ibid.
49. V. Sackville-West, ‘To Knole’.
50. V. Sackville-West, All Passion Spent, p. 90.
51. V. Sackville-West, The Heir, p. 75.
52. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 14.
53. V. Sackville-West, ‘To Knole’.
54. See Stevens, V. Sackville-West, p. 115.
55. V. Sackville-West, ‘To Knole’.
56. Ibid.
57. V. Sackville-West, ‘The Edwardians Below Stairs’.
58. V. Sackville-West, Tale of a Cavalier, quoted in Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 63.
59. Sackville-West, Inheritance, p. 189.
60. Alsop, Lady Sackville, p. 142.
61. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, p. 70; Vita to Harold, 27 February 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 23.
62. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 26.
63. Vita’s diary, 13 August 1907, Lilly Library.
64. Norman Rose, Harold Nicolson (Jonathan Cape, London, 2005), p. 42.
65. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, p. 42.
66. Alsop, Lady Sackville, p. 142.
67. Victoria Sackville diary, 21 August 1898, Lilly Library.
68. Victoria Sackville, ‘Book of Happy Reminiscences’, Lilly Library.
69. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 11.
70. V. Sackville-West, Chatterton (repr. The Through Leaves Press, 2002), p. 10.
71. Alan Pryce-Jones, Preface to Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences (Cobden-Sanderson Limited, London, 1932, repr. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986), p. 98.
72. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 11.
73. Vita’s diary, 2 June 1909, Lilly Library.
74. Saint Joan of Arc (Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1936; Folio Society repr. 1995), p. 7.
75. V. Sackville-West, Solitude (The Hogarth Press, London, 1938), p. 24.
76. V. Sackville-West, ‘The Owl’, Collected Poems, p. 125.
77. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 17.
78. V. Sackville-West, The Eagle and the Dove, p. 112.
79. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 17.
80. Sackville-West/Evelyn Irons Archive, The Dobkin Collection of Feminism and Judaica, Dobkin Collection Item 4655540, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York.
81. V. Sackville-West, The Diary of Lady Anne Clifford, p. xxxix.
82. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, pp. 14, 13; Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 84.
83. Glendinning, Vita, p. 22.
84. Virginia Woolf’s diary, 23 January 1927.
85. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 82.
86. V. Sackville-West, The Eagle and the Dove, p. 16.
87. See Stevens, V. Sackville-West, p. 107.
88. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 24.
89. Ibid.
90. V. Sackville-West, Aphra Behn (Gerald Howe, London, 1927), p. 60.
91. Fox and Funke, Vita Sackville-West, p. 13.
92. See Stevens, V. Sackville-West, p. 26.
93. V. Sackville-West, Aphra Behn, p. 74.
94. V. Sackville-West, ‘Turning Over New Leaves’, Vogue, 10 July 1929, p. 43.
95. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 24.
96. Fox and Funke, Vita Sackville-West, p. 14.
97. Quoted in Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 62.
98. Ibid.
99. See Glendinning, Vita, p. 25.
100. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sissinghurst’, Collected Poems, p. 113.
101. Sackville-West, Inheritance, p. 202.
102. Vita’s diary, 18 July 1907, Lilly Library.
103. Ibid., 12 July 1907.
104. V. Sackville-West, Pepita, p. 230.
105. Glendinning, Vita, p. 41.
106. Victoria Sackville, ‘Book of Happy Reminiscences’, Lilly Library.
107. Victoria Sackville diary, 9 March 1905, Lilly Library.
108. Ibid.
109. Vita’s diary, 24 July 1907, Lilly Library.
110. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 24.
111. Virginia Woolf, Orlando (The Hogarth Press, London, 1928, repr. Grafton Books, 1987), p. 52.
112. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 24.
113. Ibid., p. 180.
114. V. Sackville-West, The Dark Island, p. 14.
115. V. Sackville-West, The Edwardians, p. 89.
116. Stevens, V. Sackville-West, p. 117.
117. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, p. 43.
118. Trefusis, Broderie Anglaise, p. 26.
119. Ibid., p. 27
120. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 27.
121. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 13.
122. V. Sackville-West, Pepita, p. 181.
123. V. Sackville-West, Challenge (William Collins, London, 1974), p. 129.
124. Trefusis, Broderie Anglaise, pp. 16, 99.
125. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 74.
126. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 26.
127. Ibid., p. 25.
128. V. Sackville-West, The Edwardians, p. 246.
129. V. Sackville-West, The Dragon in Shallow Waters (William Collins, London, 1921), p. 231.
130. V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran (The Hogarth Press, London, 1926, repr. Cockbird Press, Heathfield, 1990), p. 148.
131. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 29.
132. Glendinning, Vita, p. 37.
133. Victoria Sackville diary, 5 March 1897, Lilly Library.
134. Ibid., 5 October 1905.
135. Sackville-West, Inheritance, p. 182.
136. Ibid., p. 185.
137. V. Sackville-West, Family History (The Hogarth Press, London, 1932), p. 147.
138. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 64.
139. V. Sackville-West, The Dark Island, p. 45.
140. Glendinning, Vita, p. 55.
141. Fox and Funke, Vita Sackville-West, p. 27.
142. V. Sackville-West, Grand Canyon, p. 167.
143. Vita to Hon. Irene Lawley, 22 March 1913, Hull History Centre (Hull University Archives U DDFA3/6/75).
144. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 36.
145. Glendinning, Vita, p. 37.
146. V. Sackville-West, Grand Canyon, p. 163.
147. V. Sackville-West, Heritage (William Collins, London, 1919, repr. Futura, 1975), p. 124.
148. Vita’s diary, 22 March 1910, Lilly Library.
149. V. Sackville-West, Heritage, p. 8.
1. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, p. 70.
2. Victoria Sackville, ‘Book of Happy Reminiscences’, Lilly Library.
3. V. Sackville-West, Heritage, p. 32.
4. V. Sackville-West, The Dark Island, p. 215.
5. Vita to Harold, 15 February 1913, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 34.
6. V. Sackville-West, Chatterton, p. 59.
7. Caws, ed., Selected Writings, p. 55.
8. V. Sackville-West, Knole and the Sackvilles, p. 28.
9. V. Sackville-West, ‘The Bull’, Collected Poems, p. 116.
10. Caws, ed., Selected Writings, p. 225.
11. V. Sackville-West, Family History, p. 274.
12. V. Sackville-West, Challenge, p. 46.
13. V. Sackville-West, Seducers in Ecuador (The Hogarth Press, London, 1924, repr. Virago, London, 1987), p. 6.
14. Vita’s diary, 1 July 1910, Lilly Library.
15. Glendinning, Vita, p. 41.
16. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 82.
17. Mitchell A. Leaska, and John Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910–1921 (Methuen, London, 1989), p. 61.
18. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 30.
19. V. Sackville-West, Family History, p. 159.
20. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 37.
21. Vita’s diary, 15 May 1910, Lilly Library.
22. Vita to Harold, 29 May 1913, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 45.
23. V. Sackville-West, Family History, p. 40.
24. Vita to Harold, 10 April 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 25.
25. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 77.
26. Richard Davenport-Hines, Ettie: The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady Desborough (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2008), p. 175.
27. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 31.
28. Vita to Harold, 21 February 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 21.
29. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 32.
30. Ibid., p. 72.
31. Ibid., p. 35.
32. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 71.
33. Vita to Harold, (undated) March 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 24.
34. Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 45.
35. Glendinning, Vita, p. 68.
36. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 32.
37. Ibid., p. 23.
38. Ibid., p. 129.
39. Ibid.
40. V. Sackville-West, The Death of Noble Godavary and Gottfried Künstler, p. 124.
41. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 32.
42. Ibid.
43. Vita to Harold, 10 May 1912, Lilly Library.
44. Glendinning, Vita, p. 55.
45. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 32.
46. Quoted in David Cannadine, Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain (Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1994), p. 214.
47. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 83.
48. Harold Nicolson, ‘The Desire to Please’, 1943.
49. Cannadine, Aspects of Aristocracy, p. 256.
50. Glendinning, Vita, p. 49.
51. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 82.
52. Cannadine, Aspects of Aristocracy, p. 218; Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 24.
53. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 84.
54. Vita to Harold, 23 July 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 29.
55. Vita to Harold, 29 May 1913, quoted in ibid., p. 45.
56. Vita to Harold, 29 May 1912, Lilly Library.
57. Vita to Harold, 6 June 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 26.
58. Michael Holroyd, A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers (Chatto & Windus, London, 2010), p. 179.
59. V. Sackville-West, ‘Early Love’, 1913, Collected Poems, p. 283.
60. Vita to Harold, 4 July 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 27.
61. Glendinning, Vita, p. 78.
62. Ibid., p. 18.
63. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 33.
64. Ibid., p. 23.
65. Ibid.
66. Vita’s diary, 29 August 1907, Lilly Library.
67. Glendinning, Vita, p. 22.
68. Ibid.
69. Vita to Harold, 8 April 1947, Lilly Library.
70. Victoria Sackville diary, 28 November 1890, Lilly Library.
71. Vita to Harold, 10 April 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 24.
72. Sackville-West, Inheritance, p. 232.
73. V. Sackville-West, All Passion Spent, pp. 175–76.
74. V. Sackville-West, Diary of Lady Anne Clifford, p. 110.
75. Vita to Harold, 23 July 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 29.
76. Vita’s diary, 2 April 1912, Lilly Library.
77. Victoria Sackville scrapbook, Sissinghurst Castle.
78. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, p. 70.
79. V. Sackville-West, Grey Wethers (William Heinemann, London, 1923), p. 138.
80. V. Sackville-West, Grand Canyon, p. 173.
81. Vita to Harold, 2 April 1912, Lilly Library.
82. Vita’s diary, 18 October 1908, Lilly Library.
83. Ibid., 7 March 1910.
84. Duff Hart-Davis, Philip de László: His Life and Art (Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2010), p. 123.
85. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 30.
86. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 68.
87. Glendinning, Vita, p. 51.
88. Vita to Harold, 23 July 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 28.
89. V. Sackville-West, Chatterton, p. 12.
90. Glendinning, Vita, p. 54.
91. V. Sackville-West, ‘A Creed’, Poems of West and East (John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1917).
92. V. Sackville-West, The Dark Island, p. 33.
93. V. Sackville-West, Solitude, p. 20.
94. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sometimes When Night …’, Collected Poems, p. 136.
95. V. Sackville-West, The Eagle and the Dove, p. 15.
96. V. Sackville-West, ‘Night’, Collected Poems, p. 145.
97. Harold to Vita, 28 July 1913, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 46.
98. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 80.
99. Fox and Funke, Vita Sackville-West, p. 24.
100. Glendinning, Vita, p. 52.
101. Quoted in ‘Sotheby’s English Literature, History, Fine Bindings, Private Press Books, Children’s Books, Illustrated Books and Drawings’, sale catalogue (10 July 2003), p. 101.
102. Vita to Hon. Irene Lawley, 9 November 1912, Hull History Centre (Hull University Archives U DDFA3/6/75).
103. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 82.
104. Vita to Harold, 23 July 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, pp. 29–30.
105. Vita to Victoria Sackville, 31 October 1912, Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
106. Vita to Harold, 29 May 1912, Lilly Library.
107. Vita to Harold, 2 April 1912, Lilly Library.
108. Harold to Vita, 18 June 1918, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 69.
109. V. Sackville-West, ‘Fashions in Decoration’, Vogue, April 1924, p. 61.
110. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 77.
111. Vita’s diary, 14 August 1907, Lilly Library.
112. V. Sackville-West, The Edwardians, p. 14.
113. Vita to Harold, 23 January 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 19.
114. See Stevens, V. Sackville-West, p. 114.
115. Harold to Vita, 10 March 1913, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 40.
116. Vita to Harold, 23 July 1912, quoted in ibid., p. 19.
117. Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 51.
118. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 84.
119. Vita to Harold, 15 February 1913, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 35.
120. Harold to Vita, 19 May 1913, quoted in ibid., p. 42.
121. Vita’s diary, 11 June 1913, Lilly Library.
122. Vita to Harold, 20 May 1913, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, pp. 44–5.
123. Harold to Vita, 19 September 1913, quoted in ibid., p. 49.
124. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, pp. 70–1.
125. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 38.
126. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, p. 71.
127. Victoria Sackville scrapbook, Sissinghurst Castle.
128. Victoria Sackville diary, quoted in the Guardian, 29 April 2013.
129. Ibid.
130. Karyn Z. Sproles, Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2006), p. 116.
131. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 39.
132. Woolf, Orlando, pp. 69–70.
133. Vita’s diary, 1 October 1913, Lilly Library.
134. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, p. 156.
135. Fox and Funke, Vita Sackville-West, p. 24.
136. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 40.
137. Glendinning, Vita, p. 67.
138. V. Sackville-West, Grey Wethers, p. 203.
139. V. Sackville-West, Seducers in Ecuador, p. 1.
140. V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, p. 33.
141. V. Sackville-West, ‘Morning in Constantinople’, Collected Poems, p. 201.
142. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 57.
143. V. Sackville-West, ‘Dhji-Han-Ghir’.
144. V. Sackville-West, ‘Retour en Songe’.
145. Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 52.
146. Ibid., p. 53.
147. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 40.
148. Ibid.
149. Harold to Vita, 11 September 1914, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 55.
150. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 40.
151. Anne Sebba, Enid Bagnold (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1986), p. 138.
1. V. Sackville-West, ‘Scorn’, Collected Poems, p. 264.
2. V. Sackville-West, ‘Gottfried Künstler’, p. 133.
3. Elizabeth Pomeroy, ‘Within Living Memory: Vita Sackville-West’s Poems of Land and Garden’, Twentieth Century Literature, 28 (Fall 1982), p. 283.
4. Vita to Harold, 1 June 1919, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 89.
5. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 61.
6. Vita to Harold, 9 July 1914, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 52.
7. Vita to Hon. Irene Lawley, 13 January 1913, Hull History Centre (Hull University Archives U DDFA3/6/75).
8. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, p. 70.
9. V. Sackville-West, Family History, p. 135.
10. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, p. 76.
11. Alsop, Lady Sackville, p. 142.
12. V. Sackville-West, The Dark Island, p. 167.
13. Vita to Harold, November 1915, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 56.
14. V. Sackville-West, Grey Wethers, p. 208.
15. Vita’s diary, 7 February 1916, Lilly Library.
16. See Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 64.
17. Ibid.
18. V. Sackville-West, ‘The Garden’, 1915.
19. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 67.
20. Anne Olivier Bell, ed., The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 3, 1925–30 (5 volumes, Penguin, London, 1979–85), pp. 145–46.
21. V. Sackville-West, Heritage, pp. 11–12.
22. V. Sackville-West, ‘Fashions in Decoration’, p. 61.
23. Vita to Harold, February 1917, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 58.
24. V. Sackville-West, ‘Song: Let Us Go Back’, 1915.
25. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 42.
26. Vita to Harold, August 1917, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 59.
27. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 115.
28. V. Sackville-West, ‘A Fallen Soldier’, Collected Poems, p. 158.
29. Vita’s diary, 2 October 1917, Lilly Library.
30. Algernon Charles Swinburne, ‘The Oblation’.
31. Vita’s diary, 28 January 1917, Lilly Library.
32. Ibid., 31 December 1916.
33. V. Sackville-West, ‘A censor for the tiny tots’, Spectator, 2 February 1954.
34. Robert Cross and Ann Ravenscroft-Hulme, Vita Sackville-West: A Bibliography (St Paul’s Bibliographies, Winchester, 1999), p. 86.
35. Vita’s diary, 5 February 1917, Lilly Library.
36. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 62.
37. See Sotheby’s, p. 197.
38. Fox and Funke, Vita Sackville-West, p. 25.
39. Caws, ed., Selected Writings, p. 56.
40. V. Sackville-West, Heritage, pp. 236–37.
41. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 41.
42. Ibid.
43. V. Sackville-West, ‘One Day’, Collected Poems, pp. 147–48.
44. Harold to Vita, 11 September 1914, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 54.
45. Glendinning, Vita, p. 218.
46. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, p. 71.
47. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 102.
48. Vita to Harold, 11 September 1914, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 54.
49. Ibid., p. 67.
50. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 100.
51. Ibid., p. 134
52. V. Sackville-West, Heritage, pp. 20–1.
53. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 74.
54. Harold to Vita, 7 November 1917, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 60.
55. Glendinning, Vita, p. 88.
56. V. Sackville-West, Heritage.
57. Vita’s diary, 18 November 1917, Lilly Library.
58. Vita to Harold, 11 May 1918, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 66.
59. Vita to Harold, 9 June 1919, quoted in ibid., p. 90.
60. Victoria Sackville, ‘Book of Happy Reminiscences’, Lilly Library.
61. Harold to Vita, 9 September 1918, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 70.
62. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 92.
63. V. Sackville-West, Challenge, p. 243.
64. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 87.
65. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 243.
66. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 89.
67. See Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 142.
68. V. Sackville-West, Aphra Behn, p. 12.
69. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 74.
70. Vita’s diary, 14 March 1918, Lilly Library.
71. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 99.
72. Ibid.
73. V. Sackville-West, The Land (Spring), Collected Poems, p. 60.
74. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 99.
75. Ibid., pp. 100, 102.
76. Woolf, Orlando, p. 25.
77. Vita’s diary, 18 April 1918, Lilly Library.
78. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 78.
79. Harold to Vita, 28 April 1918, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 65.
80. Vita to Victoria Sackville, 29 April 1918, Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
81. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 129.
82. Victoria Sackville diary, quoted in the Guardian, 29 April 2013.
83. Harold to Vita, 18 June 1918, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 68.
84. Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (HarperCollins, London, 2008), p. 291.
85. Glendinning, Vita, p. 405.
86. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 103.
87. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, p. 7.
88. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 108.
89. Harold to Vita, 2 September 1918, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 69.
90. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 90.
91. Vita’s diary, 11 October 1918, Lilly Library.
92. V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, p. 29.
93. V. Sackville-West, Gottfried Künstler, p. 124.
94. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 108.
95. Alsop, Lady Sackville, p. 209.
96. V. Sackville-West, ‘Dissonance’, Collected Poems, p. 289.
97. V. Sackville-West, ‘Eve’, ‘Eve in Tears’, Collected Poems, pp. 262, 263.
98. Vita to Harold, 1 February 1920, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 105.
99. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 148.
100. Vita to Harold, 20 March 1919, and Harold to Vita, 26 March 1919, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 81.
101. Glendinning, Vita, p. 106.
102. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 101.
103. Vita to Harold, 1 June 1919, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 88.
104. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 108.
105. V. Sackville-West, Grey Wethers, p. 202.
106. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 90.
107. Vita to Harold, July 1919, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 96.
108. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 73.
109. V. Sackville-West, Grey Wethers, p. 69.
110. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 110.
111. Vita to Harold, 1 February 1920, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 104.
112. V. Sackville-West, The Dragon in Shallow Waters (William Collins, London, 1921), p. 254.
113. Vita to Harold, 9 February 1920, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 108.
114. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 159.
115. Vita’s diary, 10 February 1920, Lilly Library.
116. Ibid.
117. Vita’s diary, 14 February 1920, Lilly Library.
118. Vita’s diary, 19 February 1920, Lilly Library.
119. Vita’s diary, 15 March 1920, Lilly Library.
120. Vita’s diary, 23 September 1920, Lilly Library.
121. V. Sackville-West, ‘To Any M.F.H.’, Collected Poems, p. 123.
122. Vita’s diary, 17 April 1920, Lilly Library.
123. Ibid., 30 April 1920.
124. Ibid., 7 May 1920.
125. Ibid., 12 October 1920.
126. V. Sackville-West, The Dragon in Shallow Waters, pp. 5–6.
127. Ibid., p. 232.
128. V. Sackville-West, Diary of Lady Anne Clifford, p. 60.
129. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 128.
130. Harold to Vita, 8 February 1921, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 113.
131. V. Sackville-West, ‘Before and After’, Collected Poems, p. 284.
132. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 199.
133. V. Sackville-West, ‘Memory – bad and good’, Spectator, 29 July 1932, p. 8.
134. Nicolson, Sissinghurst, p. 271.
135. Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage, p. 167.
136. V. Sackville-West, ‘Night’, Collected Poems, p. 145.
137. Robert Sackville-West, Inheritance, p. 237.
138. V. Sackville-West, ‘Night’, Collected Poems, p. 144.
139. V. Sackville-West, The Land (Winter), Collected Poems, p. 17.
140. Pomeroy, ‘Within Living Memory’, p. 274.
141. V. Sackville-West, The Land (Spring), Collected Poems, p. 63.
142. Cross and Ravenscroft-Hulme, Vita Sackville-West: A Bibliography, p. 209.
1. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sometimes When Night …’, Collected Poems, p. 136.
2. V. Sackville-West, The Easter Party, p. 76.
3. Vita to Harold, 8 December 1922, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 117.
4. Vita’s diary, 22 February 1924, Lilly Library.
5. V. Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, p. 91.
6. V. Sackville-West, Aphra Behn, p. 50.
7. Ibid.
8. Glendinning, Vita, p. 238.
9. V. Sackville-West, Solitude, p. 30.
10. Vita to Harold, 31 May 1926, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 145.
11. Glendinning, Vita, p. 113.
12. Jane Wellesley, Wellington: A Journey Through My Family (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2008), p. 277.
13. Vita’s diary, 28 August 1920, Lilly Library.
14. Ibid., 20 September 1921.
15. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 96.
16. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 220.
17. V. Sackville-West, ‘Penn-y-Pass’, Collected Poems, p. 141.
18. Wellesley, Wellington, p. 272.
19. Ibid., p. 308.
20. James Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson: A Biography, Volume 1 (Hamish Hamilton paperback reprint, London, 1988), p. 179.
21. Glendinning, Vita, p. 129.
22. Leonard Woolf, Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919 to 1939 (The Hogarth Press, London, 1967), pp. 111–12.
23. Caws, ed., Selected Writings, p. 235.
24. Victoria Sackville, ‘Book of Happy Reminiscences’, Lilly Library.
25. Ronald Firbank, The Flower Beneath the Foot, (1923 repr. The Complete Firbank, Picador Classics, London, 1988), p. 541.
26. Caws, ed., Selected Writings, p. 235.
27. Vita’s diary, 10 January 1924, Lilly Library.
28. Ibid., 15 January 1924.
29. Ibid., 1 February 1924.
30. Ibid., 4 February 1924.
31. Ibid., 3 December 1926.
32. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 1, p. 238.
33. Alsop, Lady Sackville, p. 204.
34. Glendinning, Vita, p. 143.
35. V. Sackville-West, Grand Canyon, p. 194.
36. Vita’s diary, 30 September 1925, Lilly Library.
37. Vita’s diary, 14 October 1925, Lilly Library.
38. Vita to Harold, 29 December 1925, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 136.
39. Vita to Harold, 28 June 1926, quoted in ibid., p. 149.
40. Vita’s diary, 3 January 1924, Lilly Library.
41. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 214.
42. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 292.
43. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 220.
44. Ibid., p. 121.
45. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 282.
46. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 209.
47. Ibid., p. 215.
48. Ibid., p. 219.
49. Glendinning, Vita, p. 126.
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.
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.
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.
141. Olson, ed., Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters, p. 31.
142. Harold to Vita, 1 October 1934, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 260.
143. Glendinning, Vita, p. 246.
144. Cross and Ravenscroft-Hulme, Vita Sackville-West: A Bibliography, p. 88.
145. V. Sackville-West, The Dark Island, pp. 34, 128.
146. Ibid., p. 147.
147. Ibid., p. 30.
148. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, p. 226.
149. V. Sackville-West, The Dark Island, p. 215.
150. Ibid., p. 206.
151. DeSalvo and Leaska, eds, Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, p. 406.
152. Ibid.
153. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 2, p. 43.
154. Olson, ed., Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters, p. 60.
155. Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April (Macmillan, London, 1922), p. 1.
156. Ibid., p. 7.
157. St Aubyn, Gwen, Towards a Pattern (Longmans, London, 1940), p. 49; see Raitt, Suzanne, Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993), p. 133.
158. V. Sackville-West, The Dark Island, p. 171.
159. V. Sackville-West, Solitude, p. 5.
160. V. Sackville-West, ‘Reddín’, Collected Poems, p. 231.
161. Ibid., p. 232.
162. Vita to Harold, 23 July 1912, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 29.
163. V. Sackville-West, Saint Joan of Arc (Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1936, repr. The Folio Society, London, 1995), p. 7.
164. Scott-James, The Making of a Garden, p. 51; Glendinning, Vita, p. 283.
165. Olson, ed., Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters, p. 92.
166. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 2, p. 74.
167. V. Sackville-West, Pepita, pp. 281–82.
168. Ibid., p. 19.
169. Cross and Ravenscroft-Hulme, Vita Sackville-West: A Bibliography, p. 101.
170. V. Sackville-West, Pepita, p. 267.
171. V. Sackville-West, Some Flowers (The Hogarth Press, London, 1937).
172. Harold to Vita, 8 June 1937, Lilly Library.
173. Brown, Vita’s Other World, pp. 70–1.
174. Fox and Funke, Vita Sackville-West, p. 42.
175. Vita’s diary, 24 March 1939, Lilly Library.
176. MacKnight, Dearest Andrew, p. 94.
1. Stevens, V. Sackville-West, p. 117.
2. V. Sackville-West, Solitude, p. 30.
3. V. Sackville-West, The Garden, p. 111.
4. Woolf, Downhill All the Way, p. 113.
5. Harold to Vita, 9 March 1938, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 298.
6. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sissinghurst’, Collected Poems, p. 111.
7. V. Sackville-West, The Garden, p. 127.
8. Dorothy Wellesley, The Annual, with an Introduction by V. Sackville-West (Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1930), p. vi.
9. Vita to Harold, 19 December 1944, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 359.
10. Vita to Margaret Smyth, 22 August 1945, Norman Colbeck Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of British Columbia Library.
11. Glendinning, Vita, p. 288; Vita to Harold, 19 December 1944, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 359.
12. V. Sackville-West, Solitude, p. 5.
13. V. Sackville-West, ‘The Touch of Nature’, Vogue, late February 1924, p. 49.
14. V. Sackville-West, The Land (William Heinemann, London, 1926).
15. V. Sackville-West, Solitude, p. 53.
16. V. Sackville-West, ‘Country Notes’, New Statesman, 18 February 1939.
17. V. Sackville-West, The Land (Winter), Collected Poems, p. 19.
18. Cross and Ravenscroft-Hulme, Vita Sackville-West: A Bibliography, p. 223.
19. V. Sackville-West, ‘Country Notes’ (‘Buying a Farm’)
20. Stevens, V. Sackville-West, p. 116.
21. V. Sackville-West, The Women’s Land Army, p. 20.
22. Vita to Harold, 4 June 1941, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 339.
23. Ibid.
24. Nigel Nicolson, ed., Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters 1930–39 (William Collins Sons & Co., London, 1966), p. 83.
25. Vita to Harold, 28 October 1935, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 278.
26. Vita to Harold, 26 August 1943, quoted in ibid., p. 353.
27. Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 190.
28. Nigel Nicolson, ed., Harold Nicolson: The Later Years 1945–1962 (William Collins Sons & Co., London, 1968), p. 52.
29. Vita to Harold, 7 February 1945, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 361.
30. Vita’s diary, 3 June 1926, Lilly Library.
31. Ibid., 11 June 1926.
32. Nigel Nicolson, ed., The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. V (repr. Hogarth Press, London, 1994), p. 291.
33. Bell, ed., Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5, p. 121.
34. Quoted in Glendinning, Vita, p. 286.
35. Vita to Harold, 14 November 1938, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 308.
36. Glendinning, Vita, p. 299.
37. Vita to Harold, 29 May 1913, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 45.
38. V. Sackville-West, Knole and the Sackvilles, p. 11.
39. V. Sackville-West, Grand Canyon, p. 191.
40. Ibid., p. 167.
41. Scott-James, The Making of a Garden, p. 94; p. 8.
42. V. Sackville-West, ‘Sissinghurst Castle’, p. 92.
43. Ibid.
44. V. Sackville-West, Grand Canyon, p. 93.
45. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 142.
46. V. Sackville-West, The Garden, p. 15.
47. Tony Lord, Gardening at Sissinghurst (Frances Lincoln, London, 1995), p. 129.
48. V. Sackville-West, Knole and the Sackvilles, p. 18.
49. Jane Brown, Sissinghurst: Portrait of a Garden (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1990), p. 12.
50. Vita to Harold, 12 December 1939, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 318.
51. Vita to Shane Leslie, 15 January 1946, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Collection Number: Cage 4934.
52. Robert Sackville-West, The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal (Bloomsbury, London, 2014).
53. V. Sackville-West, The Garden, p. 9.
54. Vita to Harold, 16 February 1944, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 357; Cross and Ravenscroft-Hulme, Vita Sackville-West: A Bibliography, p. 227.
55. Vita to Harold, 19 December 1944, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 359.
56. Glendinning, Vita, p. 326.
57. V. Sackville-West, The Eagle and the Dove, p. 133.
58. Ibid., p. 158.
59. Vita to Harold, 28 August 1940, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 328.
60. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 154.
61. Quoted in Stevens, V. Sackville-West, p. 25.
62. Harold to Vita, 31 March 1941, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 336.
63. Trefusis, Don’t Look Round, p. 97.
64. Vita to Harold, 28 August 1940, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 328.
65. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 274.
66. Ibid., p. 273.
67. Ibid., p. 276.
68. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 51.
69. Glendinning, Vita, p. 324.
70. Souhami, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, p. 282.
71. Leaska and Phillips, eds, Violet to Vita, p. 52.
72. Vita to Harold, 8 January 1952, Lilly Library.
73. Vita to Margaret Smyth, 21 April 1945, Norman Colbeck Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of British Columbia Library.
74. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 177.
75. Nicolson, ed., Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters 1945–62, p. 31.
76. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 2, p. 187.
77. Rose, Harold Nicolson, p. 268.
78. V. Sackville-West, All Passion Spent, p. 168.
79. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 2, p. 178.
80. Vita to Harold, 26 August 1943, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 353.
81. The Sunday Times, 15 January 1970.
82. Glendinning, Vita, p. 342.
83. Barber, Elizabeth, Author by Profession (Volume 2): Denys Kilham Roberts Papers, University of Iowa Special Collections MsC0828, University of Iowa Libraries.
84. Greene, Richard, Edith Sitwell: Avant-Garde Poet, English Genius (Virago, London, 2011), p. 286.
85. The Times, 15 May 1946.
86. Harold to Vita, 15 May 1946, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 368.
87. Stevens, V. Sackville-West, p. 25.
88. Vita to Harold, 2 June 1954, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 412.
89. V. Sackville-West, In Your Garden (Michael Joseph, London, 1951, repr. Frances Lincoln, London, 2004), p. 49.
90. Lord, Gardening at Sissinghurst, p. 130.
91. V. Sackville-West, Observer, 21 April 1957.
92. Nicolson, ed., Harold Nicolson, The Later Years, p. 88.
93. Vita to Harold, 5 June 1947, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 372.
94. Philip Hoare, Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant, p. 279.
95. Vita to Harold, 5 June 1947, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, pp. 372–73.
96. Harold to Vita, 11 December 1947, quoted in ibid., p. 375.
97. Brown, Vita’s Other World, p. 203.
98. Vita to Harold, 27 February 1952, Lilly Library.
99. Harold to Vita, 16 November 1955, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 416.
100. MacKnight, Dearest Andrew, p. 69.
101. Harold to Vita, 11 June 1952, Lilly Library.
102. Vita to HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 16 June 1952, Royal Archives RA QUQM/PRIV/PAL: 16 June 1952.
103. Harold to Vita, 11 June 1952, Lilly Library.
104. Harold to Vita, 24 May 1955, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 416.
105. Nicolson, ed., Harold Nicolson: The Later Years, p. 110.
106. Ibid.
107. Ibid.
108. Stevens, V. Sackville-West, p. 115.
109. V. Sackville-West, The Death of Noble Godavary, p. 47.
110. Nicolson, ed., Harold Nicolson: The Later Years, p. 110.
111. Ibid., p. 196.
112. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 2, p. 210.
113. Olson, ed., Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters, pp. 338–39.
114. V. Sackville-West, The Easter Party, p. 84.
115. Vita to Harold, 4 January 1951, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 398.
116. Nicolson, ed., Harold Nicolson: The Later Years, pp. 195–96.
117. MacKnight, Dearest Andrew, p. 61.
118. V. Sackville-West, The Easter Party, p. 27.
119. Ibid., p. 140.
120. Nicolson, ed., Harold Nicolson, The Later Years, pp. 195–96.
121. V. Sackville-West, The Easter Party, p. 235.
122. Glendinning, Vita, p. 380.
123. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 2, p. 262.
124. Harold to Vita, 4 September 1952, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, p. 407.
125. Harold to Vita, 23 May 1961, Lilly Library.
126. Nicolson, ed., Harold Nicolson: The Later Years, p. 239.
127. MacKnight, Dearest Andrew, pp. 53–4.
128. V. Sackville-West, Aphra Behn, p. 41.
129. Vita to Harold, 20 June 1951, Lilly Library.
130. Vita to Harold, 19 May 1961, Lilly Library.
131. Glendinning, Vita, p. 383.
132. V. Sackville-West, Family History, p. 274.
133. Vita to Harold, 1 October 1957, Lilly Library.
134. Vita to Harold, 13 November 1961, Lilly Library.
135. Vita to Harold, 29 May 1913, quoted in Nicolson, ed., Vita & Harold, pp. 45–6.
136. Vita to Harold, 26 February 1958, quoted in ibid., p. 424.
137. V. Sackville-West, Daughter of France, p. 196.
138. V. Sackville-West, No Signposts in the Sea, p. 135.
139. Vita to Harold, 17 May 1962, Lilly Library.
140. V. Sackville-West, The Land (Spring), Collected Poems, p. 54.
141. V. Sackville-West, No Signposts in the Sea, p. 121.