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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.
VI ALL PASSION SPENT?
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.
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