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The Resource Collection of Victoria Sackville-West materials

Collection of Victoria Sackville-West materials

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The collection contains 27 letters and 4 greeting cards of personal correspondence written between 1947-1961, from V. Sackville-West at her home at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, U.K., to Grace Mountcastle Martin in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Many of the letters convey the author's thanks for shipments of sugar and soap during times of rationing in the U.K
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eng
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0.5
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Collection of Victoria Sackville-West materials
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Collection of Victoria Sackville-West materials
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Language
eng
Summary
The collection contains 27 letters and 4 greeting cards of personal correspondence written between 1947-1961, from V. Sackville-West at her home at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, U.K., to Grace Mountcastle Martin in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Many of the letters convey the author's thanks for shipments of sugar and soap during times of rationing in the U.K
Biographical or historical data
V. [Victoria or "Vita"] Sackville-West, English poet, novelist, socialite and suffragette, was born in 1892 at her family's estate at Knole in Kent. Privately educated, she began writing poetry at age 11, and had produced 8 novels and 5 plays by the time of her marriage to Harold Nicholson in 1913. SackvilleWest eventually published nearly 50 volumes of poetry, fiction, biography, history and horticulture. She was awarded the Hawthorne Prize in 1927 for her poem, "The Land." Sackville-West was noted among her peers for her active, bohemian lifestyle and her numerous affairs with other women, particularly the author Virgina Woolf, but despite this latter relationship she was never directly involved with the Bloomsbury group of artists and writers. She and her husband settled at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, where she became a recognized authority on gardening and country life. She died in 1962
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1892-1962
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Sackville-West, V.
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Collection materials are in English
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1891-1968
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Martin, Grace Mountcastle
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  • Masefield, John
  • Sissinghurst Castle (England)
  • Jam
  • Rationing
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Collection of Victoria Sackville-West materials
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Production
Carrier category
sheet
Carrier category code
  • nb
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1056624863
Extent
0.5
Governing access note
Collection is open for research
Immediate source of acquisition
Gift of Grace Mountcastle Martin
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Organization method
Materials arranged in one series: Correspondence
System control number
(OCoLC)1056624863
Terms governing use
Materials to be used on site during regular Special Collections hours or by appointment. Photocopying or scanning may be possible at discretion of staff for nominal fee. Materials may be protected by copyright
Type of unit
linear feet
Label
Collection of Victoria Sackville-West materials
Production
Carrier category
sheet
Carrier category code
  • nb
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1056624863
Extent
0.5
Governing access note
Collection is open for research
Immediate source of acquisition
Gift of Grace Mountcastle Martin
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Organization method
Materials arranged in one series: Correspondence
System control number
(OCoLC)1056624863
Terms governing use
Materials to be used on site during regular Special Collections hours or by appointment. Photocopying or scanning may be possible at discretion of staff for nominal fee. Materials may be protected by copyright
Type of unit
linear feet

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