Female : Novelist & Poet. Only child of the 3rd Lord Sackville. Married the diplomat Harold Nicolson 1913. Had a passionate affair with Violette Trefusis in 1918, who married Denys Trefusis in 1919 to suppress the scandal. She lived at Sissinghurst in Kent

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent

Date of Birth : 1892 Date of Death : 1962 Age : 70

Education : Privately educated

1909-1920
Chatterton (1909 Privately Printed, Sevenoaks)
Constantinople Eight Poems (1915 Privately Printed, Complete Press, London)
Poems of West and East (1917 John Lane, BH)
Heritage (1919 Collins) (1919 Doran, NY)

1921-1925
The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1921 Collins)
Orchard and Vineyard (1921 John Lane, BH)
The Heir (1922 private print Ltd ed of 100 copies)
The Heir (1922 Heinemann)
Knole and the Sackvilles (1922 Heinemann)
Challenge : A Novel (1923 Doran, NY)
Grey Wethers (1923 Heinemann)
The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford (1923 Heinemann)
Seducers in Ecuador (1924 Hogarth Press)

1926-1930
Passenger to Teheran (1926 Hogarth Press)
The Land (1926 Heinemann) - HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE
Aphra Benn (1927 Gerald Howe) (1928 NY)
Twelve Days : An Account of a Journey Across the Bakhtiari Mountains in SW Persia (1928 HP)
The English Character : An Address to the Boys of Sevenoaks School (1928 Oxford) - 150
King's Daughter (1929 HP)
Andrew Marvell (1929 Faber) - 75 signed
The Edwardians (1930 Hogarth Press) + a Ltd Edition

1931-1935
All Passion Spent (1931 HP)
Rilke (1931 HP) - translation
Sissinghurst (1931 HP 500 signed numbered copies)
Invitation to Cast Out Care (1931 Faber)
V Sackville-West (1931 Benn) - booklet
Family History (1932 HP)
Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour & other Stories (1932 Doubleday Doran, NY)
The Death of Noble Godavary and Gottfried Kunstler (1932 Benn "Ninepenny Novels")
The Dark Island (1934 HP)

1936-1940
Saint Joan of Arc (1936 Cobden-Sanderson)
Joan of Arc (1937 Hogarth Press)
Pepita (1937 Hogarth Press)
Some Flowers (1937 Cobden-Sanderson)
Solitude : A Poem (1938 Hogarth Press)
Country Notes (1939 Michael Joseph
Country Notes in Wartime (1940 HP)

1941-1945
Selected Poems (1941 HP)
English Country Houses (1941 Collins B.I.P. Series)
Grand Canyon (1942 Michael Joseph)
The Eagle and the Dove : A Study in Contrasts (1943 Michael Joseph 10/6)
The Women's Land Army (1944 Michael Joseph)
Searchlights (1944 London)
Another World Than This (1945 Michael Joseph)

1946-1950
The Garden (1946 Michael Joseph)
Knole and the Sackvilles (1947 Drummond)
Nursery Rhymes (1947 Dropmore Press - Ltd ed 550 copies) - Philippe Julian
Devil at Westease : The Story as related by Roger Liddiard (1947 Doubleday Doran, NY)
The Heir (1949 Richards Press, London)
Nursery Rhymes : An Essay (1950 Michael Joseph) - 1st Trade Ed. Philippe Julian

1951-1955
In Your Garden (1951 Michael Joseph)
Hidcote Manor Garden (1952 Country Life) - booklet
Knole (1952 National Trust) - booklet
In Your Garden Again (1953 Michael Joseph)
Walter De La Mare and "The Traveller" (1953 British Academy, an offprint)
The Easter Party (1953 Michael Joseph)
More for Your Garden (1955 Michael Joseph)

1956-1960
Even More for Your Garden (1958 Michael Joseph)
Knole and the Sackvilles (1958 Benn)
A Joy of Gardening (1958 Harper & Row, NY)
Daughter of France (1959 Michael Joseph)

After 1961
No Signposts in the Sea (1961 Michael Joseph)
Faces : Profiles of Dogs (1961 Harvill Press) - photos by Laelia Goehr
V Sackville-West's Garden Book (1968 Michael Joseph)
Dearest Andrew : Letters to Andrew Reiber 1951-1962 (1979 Michael Joseph £4.95) (1979 NY)
Letters from V Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1984 Michael Joseph)
The Illustrated Garden Book (1986 Michael Joseph)
Vita and Harold : The Letters (Edited by Nigel Nicolson) (1992 Putnam NY)

READING
S R Watson : Vita Sackville-West (1972)
Nigel Nicolson : Portrait of a Marriage (1973)
Michael Stevens : Vita Sackville-West - A Critical Biography (1973)
J Brown : Vita's Other World - A Gardening Biography of Vita Sackville-West (1985)
Victoria Glendinning : Vita - The Life of Vita Sackville-West (1987 Penguin)
(Ed) Mary Ann Caws : Vita Sackvill-West - Selected Writings (2002 Macmillan £22.99)