Vita Sackville-West

However, Sissinghurst in Kent, former home of Vita Sackville-West, seems to have bucked the trend: its numbers last year were down 21% – blamed on bad Easter weather.

UK tourist attractions say hooray for Hollywood 2011

But Ms. Harris underestimates the force of Woolf's affair in the late 1920s with Vita Sackville-West, the novelist and poet with whom Woolf most intensely—and perhaps exclusively—experienced sexual desire.

The Lives of A Novelist Mira Sethi 2011

The research leads Mr. Holroyd to Beckett's illegitimate daughter, the novelist Violet Trefusis, best known for her amour with Vita Sackville-West, which Nigel Nicolson wrote about in "Portrait of a Marriage" 1973.

The Biographers' Biographer Carl Rollyson 2011

Playing a woman who has chosen to live her life as a man was a first for Ms. McTeer, 50, although she has more experience than most people playing women who love women: In the 1990 BBC miniseries "A Portrait of a Marriage," Ms. McTeer starred as Vita Sackville-West, a bisexual writer who had an affair with Virginia Woolf.

The Other Woman in 'Albert Nobbs' Rachel Dodes 2011

Plus, it turns out Vita Sackville-West is not alone in finding flowers intoxicating.

Remember the power of flowers in your garden 2011

London dealer Peter Harrington will offer an intimate letter written in 1932 by Virginia Woolf to her fellow writer Vita Sackville-West in which she says, "I would pitch you a very melancholy story about my jealousy of all your new loves" price: £32,500.

June's Little Black Dress Margaret Studer 2011

Just down the road is Sissinghurst Castle, home to Vita Sackville-West's famous English garden.

The 10 best quirky campsites 2011

Harold Nicolson was a member of Parliament, novelist, biographer, journalist, former diplomat, noted gardener — and the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West.

Five Best 2010

Harold Nicolson was a member of Parliament, novelist, biographer, journalist, former diplomat, noted gardener — and the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West.

Five Best 2010

Harold Nicolson was a member of Parliament, novelist, biographer, journalist, former diplomat, noted gardener — and the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West.

Five Best 2010