A Home of Her Own: The Houses and Gardens of Vita Sackville-West

A literary, horticultural, and personal tour of the legendary writer and gardener's houses and gardens, the places that gave her work and her life a vital sense of self.

Born in 1892 at Knole, a Jacobean palace and treasure house, Vita died seventy years later at Sissinghurst, where she had created one of England's loveliest and most celebrated gardens. Throughout her life, she lived in extraordinary places, fascinated and inspired by their histories. An obsession with her ancestry and with ...