Vita Sackville-West
Bio
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) was a writer and garden designer. Among her works are the novels The Edwardians (1930), All Passion Spent (1931), and the pastoral poem ‘The Land’ (1926), which was awarded the prestigious Hawthornden Prize. Over the years Sackville-West had many dogs, including Cocker Spaniel Pippin (famously the mother of Virginia Woolf’s Spaniel, Pinka); Alsatian Rollo, whose photograph hangs in Sissinghurst Castle; and elkhound Canute, who used to hop on the bus into town whenever he got bored.