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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.
III INVITATION TO CAST OUT CARE
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.
IV ORLANDO
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 Lib
rary.
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.