When Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicolson had been married for four and a half years her husband was obliged to have a difficult conversation. He had been put under doctor’s orders to abstain from sex for six months due to a venereal infection, following a fleeting encounter with a man. He was also forced to confess to Vita that there had been other such indiscretions. He called them ...
Two of its then leading practitioners, Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, were a couple devoted not merely to each other, but to Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, whose celebrated gardens are ...
Vita Sackville-West Later that month, Vita Sackville-West offered the Campbells the opportunity to live in a cottage in the grounds of Sissinghurst Castle. They accepted but later Roy Campbell objected when he discovered that his wife was having an affair with Vita: "It was then that we entered the most comically sordid and silly period of our ...