- Her poem, "Sissinghurst" (Hogarth. 1 93 1), written as a tribute to her new home, was dedicated to Virginia Woolf (also her lover).
- Wrote some fifty books in all - not just novels and poetry but travel books, biography (fittingly, on Aphra Behn and Joan of Arc), and eight books on gardening.
- Rose to best-seller status in the 1930s for novels such as "The Edwardians" and "All Passion Spent".
- Wrote two distinguished travel books, "Passenger to Teheran" (1926) and "Twelve Days" (1928), both very collectable. These books recount her experiences travelling both to and inside Persia in 1926/27, while "Twelve Days" illustrates her own photographs.
- "Portrait of a Marriage" by Nigel Nicolson (Vita's son) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973) gives the full story of this period of the Nicolsons' lives, taken from an autobiographical manuscript found after Vita Sackville-West's death. The book has also been made into a Exxon Mobile Masterpiece Theatre mini-series.
- She won the 1927 Hawthorne Prize for poetry with "The Land".
- Had two sons, Lionel Benedict (b. August 6th 1914, d. 1978) and Nigel (b. January 19th 1917, d. 2004).
- Virginia Woolf's novel, "Orlando", was written about her.
- Her grandmother was the famous Pepita, a Spanish dancer of humble descent who had formed an 'illicit union' with Lionel Sackville-West, the 2nd Lord Sackville.
- Dedicated one novel, "The Dragon in Shallow Waters" (Collins 1921), to 'L' (Lushka), Vita's pet name for Violet Trefusis. It was written during a stormy period of Vita's life when she was totally involved with Trefusis. The Vita/Violet situation lasted for a number of years.
- Her third novel, "Challenge", was not published in England until 1974 due to the sensational topic.
- Grandmother of Vanessa Pepita Nicolson, born 1956 (Lionel's daughter); Juliet, born 1954, Adam, born 1957 and Rebecca, born 1963 (Nigel's children).
- Daughter of Lionel Edward Sackville-West (1867-1928) and Victoria Josepha Dolores Catalina Sackville-West (1862-1936).
- She was made a Companion of Honour (CH) in the 1948 King's New Year Honours List for her services to literature.
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