The Dark Island. London: Hogarth Press; New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1934.
Daughter of France. London: Michael Joseph; New York: Doubleday, 1949.
The Eagle and The Dove. London: Michael Joseph, 1943; New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1944.
The Easter Party. London: Michael Joseph; New York: Doubleday, 1953.
The Edwardians. London: Hogarth Press. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1930.
“The Engagement,” Tatler, October 22, 1930, pp. 44–45, 102, 104.
English Country Houses. London: Collins, 1941.
Faces: Profiles of Dogs (with photographs by Laelia Goehr). Harvill Press, London; New York: Doubleday, 1962.
Family History. London: Hogarth Press; New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1932.
The Garden. London: Michael Joseph, 1946.
Grand Canyon. London: Michael Joseph; New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942.
In Your Garden. London: Michael Joseph, 1951.
A Joy of Gardening: A Selection for Americans, ed. Hermine Popper. New York: Harper, 1958.
Knole and the Sackvilles. London: William Heinemann, 1922.
No Signposts in the Sea. London: Michael Joseph; New York: Doubleday, 1961.
Passenger to Teheran. London: Hogarth Press, 1926; second edition, Cockbird Press, Heathfield, 1990.
Pepita. London: Hogarth Press; New York: Doubleday, 1937.
Poems of East and West. London: Bodley Head, 1917.
Saint Joan of Arc. London: Cobden, Sanderson; New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1936.
Seducers in Ecuador. London: Hogarth Press, 1924; New York: Doran, 1925; Penguin Books, 1989.
Some Tendencies of Modern English Poetry, Essays by Divers Hands (1917), Royal Society of Literature, London.
Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1932.
Twelve Days. London: Hogarth press, 1928.
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Aden
Amiens, France
animals
Avignon, France
Bagnold, Enid
Bakhtiari region
see also Persia
BBC
Bell, Clive
Bell, Gertrude
Bell, Vanessa
“B.M.” (Bonne Maman)
see also Sackville-West, Victoria
Braithwaite, R. B. (philosopher, associated with logical positivism)
Brett, Dorothy
Bridges, Robert
British Legation
Bryn Mawr College
Buckingham Palace
Burlington magazine
Cadogan Gardens
Cambodge
Campbell, Kenneth Hallyburton
Campbell, Mary
Cézanne
Chatterton, Thomas
Clark, Lady
color (as important element in the work of Vita Sackville-West)
Convent of St. Joseph
Cowper, William
Dane, Clemence (Winifred Ashton)
Dansey, Margaret (Pat)
Dartmouth, England
Darwin, Gwen (Raverat)
de la Mare, Walter
Dodd, Marion
dogs
Cocker Spaniels
Collies
Elk Hounds
Great Danes
Mongrels
Salukis
Donne, John
Dorset, Frances
Dover, England
Drummond, Bunny
Dunn, Esther
Duran, Pepita
Dyment, Clifford
D’Youville College
Ebury Street
Egypt
Eliot, T. S.
Eve
see also Keppel, Violet
Falmouth, England
Femina prize
feminism
Frost, Robert
Fry, Roger
gardening
Gardner Museum
Gaul, Otto
Glendinning, Victoria
Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West
Gloucester, England
Grosvenor, Rosamund
Hadji, see Nicolson, Harold
Hall, Radclyffe
The Well of Loneliness
Harrison, Ruth
Hawthornden prize
Hilatine, General
Hindhead, England
Hogarth Press
see also Woolf, Virginia
Hopkins, Roland
Hutchinson, Mary
Huxley, Aldous
Iraq
Irons, Evelyn
Jeffers, Robinson
Jones, Roderick
Joseph, Michael
Julian
see also Sackville-West, Vita
Kent, England
Keppel, Alice
Keppel, George
Keppel, Violet
Keynes, John Maynard
Knole
see also Sackville-West, Vita
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Lamont, Edith
landscapes
Lawrence, D. H.
Lees-Milne, Alvilde
Lincoln, England
Lindsay, Elizabeth
Lippman, Walter
Long Barn
Lowndes, Marie Adelaide Belloc
Luhan, Mabel Dodge
Lushka
see also Keppel, Violet
MacNeice, Louis
Manning, Helen Taft
Mar, see Sackville-West, Vita
Marvell, Andrew
Matheson, Hilda
Mayne, Ethel
McCormick, Mrs. Robert
Middleton, George
Mitya
see also Keppel, Violet
Monte Carlo
Moore, George
Morgan, Helen
Morgan, J.P.
Mortimer, Raymond
National Trust
Nervi, Italy
New York Times
Nicolson, Benedict
Nicolson, Nigel
Long Life
Portrait of a Marriage
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
Paris, France
Persepolis, Persia
Persia
Phelps, William Lyon
Polperro, Italy
Pound, Ezra
Provence, France
Prufrock, Alfred
Pucci, Orazio
Pym, Violet (Vi)
Qaleh Madrasseh
Rainbow
Rinder, Olive
Roosevelt, Kermit
Royal Society of Literature award
Russia
Sackville, Thomas
Sackville-West, Edward
Sackville-West, Lionel
Sackville-West, Victoria
“Book of Reminiscences”
Sackville-West, Vita
American lecture tour
as model for Orlando
critical writing
diaries
early works
emotional energy in work
family history
letter writing
love affairs
on flowers
on gardening
on literary criticism
on nature
on philology
on poetic imagery
on poetry/poetic craft
on rural vs. urban life
poetry
relationship with her mother
sexuality
travel writings
view of self
see “The Poetry Reading”
Works
All Passion Spent
Lady Slane
Andrew Marvell
Aphra Behn: The Incomparable Astrea
Beginnings
Book of a Thousand Pities
Challenge
“Changes in English Social Life”
The Dark Island
“D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf”
Dream Book
Easter Party
The Edwardians
Eight Poems
“The Engagement”
Faces
Family History
“French Idea of Gardening”
“The Garden”
Grand Canyon
“The Heir”
Knole and the Sackvilles
La Grande Mademoiselle
“The Land”
“The Modern Spirit of Literature”
“Novels and Novelists”
“The Novice to her Lover”
“On Writing a Novel”
Passenger to Teheran
Pepita
“The Poet”
“The Poetry Reading”
“Reddin”
Saint Joan of Arc
Seducers in Ecuador
“Sissinghurst”
“Some Tendencies of Modern English Poetry”
“Temple of Love”
Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour
“Travels through Persia”
Twelve Days
Sargent, John Singer
Scott, Geoffrey
Scott, Sir John Murray (“Seery”)
7 Oaks Literary Society
Shakespeare
Sherfield, England
Sissinghurst Castle
Sitwell, Edith
Smart, Christopher
Smith College
Smith, Lionel
Society of Authors
Sonning, England
St. Aubyn, Gwen
St. John, Christopher
St. Teresa
Statesman & Empire Review
Sumurun (Lord Sackville-West’s yacht)
Teheran
Thomas, Dylan
Tinker, Chauncey
Trefusis, Denys
Trefusis, Violet Keppel
see also Keppel, Violet
Trollope, Anthony
United States
Val d’Isere, France
Venice, Italy
Verona, Italy
Voigt, Margaret Goldsmith
Walpole, Horace
Walpole, Hugh
Wellesley, Dorothy
Wells, Leonard
Wolfe, Eugenia
Woolf, Virginia
Mrs. Dalloway
Orlando
World War II
Wright, Orville
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