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Picture of Vita Sackville-West. Lady with a Red Hat, portrait of Vita Sackville-West, 1918, by William Strang (1859?1921). This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. This work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 90 years or less.

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The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 - 2 June 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life, her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf, and Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which she and her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson, created at their estate.

❝A man and his loves make a man and his life.❞ [+]

❝I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.❞ [+]

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