Avond rondom ‘Liefst schepsel’ van Virginia Woolf: Vertaler Han van der Vegt komt naar Kennemer Boekhandel voor een lezing over Liefst schepsel, een kloeke bundel van brieven van schrijfster Virginia Woolf aan Vita Sackville-West. Het… #Haarlem #KennemerBoekhandel #VirginiaWoolf #VitaSackvilleWest
Avond rondom ‘Liefst schepsel’ van Virginia Woolf
Vertaler Han van der Vegt komt naar Kennemer Boekhandel voor een lezing over Liefst schepsel, een kloeke bundel van brieven van schrijfster Virginia Woolf aan Vita Sackville-West. Het belooft een zeer bijzondere avond te worden. Mis het niet! Op het moment dat de twee Engelse auteurs elkaar ontmoetten, was Sackville-West al een bekende schrijver van […]
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February 5, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Avond rondom ‘Liefst schepsel’ van Virginia Woolf: Vertaler Han van der Vegt komt naar Kennemer Boekhandel voor een lezing over Liefst schepsel, een kloeke bundel van brieven van schrijfster Virginia Woolf aan Vita Sackville-West. Het… #Haarlem #KennemerBoekhandel #VirginiaWoolf #VitaSackvilleWest
In Convalescence, Vita Sackville-West captures how illness sharpens memory — how stillness imprints places, skies, and sounds so deeply that they follow us across the world. A sonnet of recovery, longing, and quiet endurance.
#Poetry #VitaSackvilleWest #OriginalPoems
#Poetry #VitaSackvilleWest #OriginalPoems
January 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
In Convalescence, Vita Sackville-West captures how illness sharpens memory — how stillness imprints places, skies, and sounds so deeply that they follow us across the world. A sonnet of recovery, longing, and quiet endurance.
#Poetry #VitaSackvilleWest #OriginalPoems
#Poetry #VitaSackvilleWest #OriginalPoems
😡Im Fall von verrückten und wütenden Männern könnte der Trank-Tipp aus dem Jahr 1597 immer noch nützlich sein, schrieb Vita Sackville-West in einer ihrer Gartenkolumnen.😲
#VitaSackvilleWest #Garten #Giftpflanze #Schneerose #Christrose
#VitaSackvilleWest #Garten #Giftpflanze #Schneerose #Christrose
Helleborus niger is described as early as 1597 in his Herball by John Gerard who considered that a purgation of hellebore was ‘good for mad and furious men.’ Such a decoction might still come in useful today. #gardening
December 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
😡Im Fall von verrückten und wütenden Männern könnte der Trank-Tipp aus dem Jahr 1597 immer noch nützlich sein, schrieb Vita Sackville-West in einer ihrer Gartenkolumnen.😲
#VitaSackvilleWest #Garten #Giftpflanze #Schneerose #Christrose
#VitaSackvilleWest #Garten #Giftpflanze #Schneerose #Christrose
Bisexual English diplomat, politician, writer and gardener Harold Nicholson, best known for his chaotic open marriage with writer #VitaSackvilleWest, was BOTD in 1886. #haroldnicholson #bornonthisday #sissinghurst #chaoticbisexuals
Harold Nicholson
English diplomat, politician and writer Harold Nicholson was BOTD in 1886. Born in Tehran, Iran, where his father Baron Carnock was posted as a diplomat, he had an itinerant childhood, returning to…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Bisexual English diplomat, politician, writer and gardener Harold Nicholson, best known for his chaotic open marriage with writer #VitaSackvilleWest, was BOTD in 1886. #haroldnicholson #bornonthisday #sissinghurst #chaoticbisexuals
[PARUTION - 01/10/2025 - 1ere éd. 1953 (anglais)] « Quelle meilleure perspective que celle d’un week-end de Pâques en famille et entre amis au superbe domaine d’Anstey, en plein cœur de la campagne anglaise ? Sous l’impulsion de sa femme, [...] » www.autrement.com/plus-jamais-...
#vitasackvillewest
#vitasackvillewest
Plus jamais d'invités ! de Vita Sackville-West - Editions Autrement
Plus jamais d'invités ! : présentation du livre de Vita Sackville-West publié aux Editions Autrement. Quelle meilleure perspective que celle d’un week-end de Pâques en famille et entre amis au superbe...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
[PARUTION - 01/10/2025 - 1ere éd. 1953 (anglais)] « Quelle meilleure perspective que celle d’un week-end de Pâques en famille et entre amis au superbe domaine d’Anstey, en plein cœur de la campagne anglaise ? Sous l’impulsion de sa femme, [...] » www.autrement.com/plus-jamais-...
#vitasackvillewest
#vitasackvillewest
This glorious second flowering of her personal, erudite, and poetical book will not only delight her many admirers but also guarantee her reputation with a new generation of gardening enthusiasts.
Available @AyCarambaBooks.com
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#vitasackvillewest #someflowers
Available @AyCarambaBooks.com
www.aycarambagifts.com/product-page...
#vitasackvillewest #someflowers
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This glorious second flowering of her personal, erudite, and poetical book will not only delight her many admirers but also guarantee her reputation with a new generation of gardening enthusiasts.
Available @AyCarambaBooks.com
www.aycarambagifts.com/product-page...
#vitasackvillewest #someflowers
Available @AyCarambaBooks.com
www.aycarambagifts.com/product-page...
#vitasackvillewest #someflowers
Litera'da Vita Sackville-West üzerine ⚡️#literaedebiyat #vitasackvillewest
www.literaedebiyat.com/post/vita-sa...
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Cihangir'de bir İngiliz gülü
Nilay Kaya bu ay, Virginia Woolf ile yaşadığı ilişkinin getirdiği popülaritenin kurbanı olmuş, yazarlığı ve şairliği gölgede kalmış bir edebiyatçının, Vita Sackville-West’in izini sürüyor. Nilay Kaya’...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Litera'da Vita Sackville-West üzerine ⚡️#literaedebiyat #vitasackvillewest
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«So Autumn’s not the end, not the last rung
Of any ladder in the yearly climb,
When that is deathly old which once was young.
Since time's no ladder but a constant wheel
Like an old paddled mill that dips and churns
The mill-race, and upon the summit turns […]
[Original post on mastodon.uno]
Of any ladder in the yearly climb,
When that is deathly old which once was young.
Since time's no ladder but a constant wheel
Like an old paddled mill that dips and churns
The mill-race, and upon the summit turns […]
[Original post on mastodon.uno]
September 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
«So Autumn’s not the end, not the last rung
Of any ladder in the yearly climb,
When that is deathly old which once was young.
Since time's no ladder but a constant wheel
Like an old paddled mill that dips and churns
The mill-race, and upon the summit turns […]
[Original post on mastodon.uno]
Of any ladder in the yearly climb,
When that is deathly old which once was young.
Since time's no ladder but a constant wheel
Like an old paddled mill that dips and churns
The mill-race, and upon the summit turns […]
[Original post on mastodon.uno]
It is necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
- #VitaSackvilleWest
- #VitaSackvilleWest
August 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
It is necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
- #VitaSackvilleWest
- #VitaSackvilleWest
✒️ #VioletTrefusis, English writer and socialite who had a famous affair with writer #VitaSackvilleWest, was #BOTD 6 June 1894. #Literature
June 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
✒️ #VioletTrefusis, English writer and socialite who had a famous affair with writer #VitaSackvilleWest, was #BOTD 6 June 1894. #Literature
"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vita-s...
Excellent piece: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/03...
✒️ #VitaSackvilleWest, English author and poet, #DOTD 2 June 1962. #Poetry #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vita-s...
Excellent piece: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/03...
✒️ #VitaSackvilleWest, English author and poet, #DOTD 2 June 1962. #Poetry #Literature
June 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vita-s...
Excellent piece: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/03...
✒️ #VitaSackvilleWest, English author and poet, #DOTD 2 June 1962. #Poetry #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vita-s...
Excellent piece: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/03...
✒️ #VitaSackvilleWest, English author and poet, #DOTD 2 June 1962. #Poetry #Literature
Recordeu: demà, amb la Mireia Vidal-Conte, presentarem aquest #llibre tan valuós a la
Llibreria la Temerària de #Terrassa?
No us ho perdeu: xalarem de valent.
@laelageminada.bsky.social
#virginiawoolf #loveletters #cartesdamor #vitasackvillewest #literaturaencatalà #literaturacatalana
Llibreria la Temerària de #Terrassa?
No us ho perdeu: xalarem de valent.
@laelageminada.bsky.social
#virginiawoolf #loveletters #cartesdamor #vitasackvillewest #literaturaencatalà #literaturacatalana
May 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Recordeu: demà, amb la Mireia Vidal-Conte, presentarem aquest #llibre tan valuós a la
Llibreria la Temerària de #Terrassa?
No us ho perdeu: xalarem de valent.
@laelageminada.bsky.social
#virginiawoolf #loveletters #cartesdamor #vitasackvillewest #literaturaencatalà #literaturacatalana
Llibreria la Temerària de #Terrassa?
No us ho perdeu: xalarem de valent.
@laelageminada.bsky.social
#virginiawoolf #loveletters #cartesdamor #vitasackvillewest #literaturaencatalà #literaturacatalana
«“April is the cruellest month...”
[...]
The land and not the waste land celebrate,
The rich and hopeful land, the solvent land,
Not some poor desert strewn with nibbled bones,
A land of death, sterility, and stones».
#vitasackvillewest, The Garden, 1946
#poetry
[...]
The land and not the waste land celebrate,
The rich and hopeful land, the solvent land,
Not some poor desert strewn with nibbled bones,
A land of death, sterility, and stones».
#vitasackvillewest, The Garden, 1946
#poetry
April 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
«“April is the cruellest month...”
[...]
The land and not the waste land celebrate,
The rich and hopeful land, the solvent land,
Not some poor desert strewn with nibbled bones,
A land of death, sterility, and stones».
#vitasackvillewest, The Garden, 1946
#poetry
[...]
The land and not the waste land celebrate,
The rich and hopeful land, the solvent land,
Not some poor desert strewn with nibbled bones,
A land of death, sterility, and stones».
#vitasackvillewest, The Garden, 1946
#poetry
March 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
«Not only war, but natural Winter carries
This valuable and enforced retreat,
...
Shall I count March in Winter? yes, in this
Dear northern island where the sun's late kiss
Comes not till middle April».
V. Sackville-West, The Garden, 1946
#poetry
This valuable and enforced retreat,
...
Shall I count March in Winter? yes, in this
Dear northern island where the sun's late kiss
Comes not till middle April».
V. Sackville-West, The Garden, 1946
#poetry
March 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
«Not only war, but natural Winter carries
This valuable and enforced retreat,
...
Shall I count March in Winter? yes, in this
Dear northern island where the sun's late kiss
Comes not till middle April».
V. Sackville-West, The Garden, 1946
#poetry
This valuable and enforced retreat,
...
Shall I count March in Winter? yes, in this
Dear northern island where the sun's late kiss
Comes not till middle April».
V. Sackville-West, The Garden, 1946
#poetry
AWESOME PEOPLE (BINGE)READING
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
#vitasackvillewest #awesomepeoplebingereading #booksky #germanbooksky
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
#vitasackvillewest #awesomepeoplebingereading #booksky #germanbooksky
March 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
AWESOME PEOPLE (BINGE)READING
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
#vitasackvillewest #awesomepeoplebingereading #booksky #germanbooksky
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
#vitasackvillewest #awesomepeoplebingereading #booksky #germanbooksky
English aristocrat, writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West, whose love affair with Virginia Woolf inspired Woolf’s novel “Orlando”, was BOTD in 1892. #vitasackvillewest #supergays #bornonthisday
Vita Sackville-West
English aristocrat, writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West was BOTD in 1892. Born at Knole in Kent, her family’s ancestral home, she was the only child of the 3rd Baron Sackville, but as a female …
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March 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
English aristocrat, writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West, whose love affair with Virginia Woolf inspired Woolf’s novel “Orlando”, was BOTD in 1892. #vitasackvillewest #supergays #bornonthisday
"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vita-s...
✒️ #VitaSackvilleWest, English author and poet, was #BOTD 9 March 1892. #Poetry #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vita-s...
✒️ #VitaSackvilleWest, English author and poet, was #BOTD 9 March 1892. #Poetry #Literature
March 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vita-s...
✒️ #VitaSackvilleWest, English author and poet, was #BOTD 9 March 1892. #Poetry #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vita-s...
✒️ #VitaSackvilleWest, English author and poet, was #BOTD 9 March 1892. #Poetry #Literature
Vita’s tower writing room seen across Delos from the window of the Priest’s House early evening
#vitasackvillewest #bloomsbury #gaymantravelling
#vitasackvillewest #bloomsbury #gaymantravelling
February 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Vita’s tower writing room seen across Delos from the window of the Priest’s House early evening
#vitasackvillewest #bloomsbury #gaymantravelling
#vitasackvillewest #bloomsbury #gaymantravelling
"Its not due to you that I’m alive today: I’ve eaten the whole pie practically myself!
Heaven above us, what immortal geese must have gone to make it! It was fresh as a dockleaf, pink as mushrooms, pure as first love." #VirginiaWoolf to #VitaSackvilleWest Letters, Dec 1937
Heaven above us, what immortal geese must have gone to make it! It was fresh as a dockleaf, pink as mushrooms, pure as first love." #VirginiaWoolf to #VitaSackvilleWest Letters, Dec 1937
December 2, 2024 at 8:53 PM
"Its not due to you that I’m alive today: I’ve eaten the whole pie practically myself!
Heaven above us, what immortal geese must have gone to make it! It was fresh as a dockleaf, pink as mushrooms, pure as first love." #VirginiaWoolf to #VitaSackvilleWest Letters, Dec 1937
Heaven above us, what immortal geese must have gone to make it! It was fresh as a dockleaf, pink as mushrooms, pure as first love." #VirginiaWoolf to #VitaSackvilleWest Letters, Dec 1937
November 24, 2024 at 10:38 PM
heyyyy looking for moots
#agathaallalong
#agathario
#killingeve
#lesbianlit
#hannibal
#pennydreadful
#cateblanchett
#jodiecomer
#kathrynhahn
#aubreyplaza
#gentlemanjack
#surannejones
#sophierundle
#glee
#taylorswift
#virginiawoolf
#vitasackvillewest
#carolaird
#annelister
#lesbianhistory
#evagreen
#agathaallalong
#agathario
#killingeve
#lesbianlit
#hannibal
#pennydreadful
#cateblanchett
#jodiecomer
#kathrynhahn
#aubreyplaza
#gentlemanjack
#surannejones
#sophierundle
#glee
#taylorswift
#virginiawoolf
#vitasackvillewest
#carolaird
#annelister
#lesbianhistory
#evagreen
November 14, 2024 at 4:19 PM
« If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. »
― Carson McCullers
#nathachaappanah #harperlee #carsonmccullers #vitasackvillewest
― Carson McCullers
#nathachaappanah #harperlee #carsonmccullers #vitasackvillewest
April 23, 2024 at 6:31 PM
« If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. »
― Carson McCullers
#nathachaappanah #harperlee #carsonmccullers #vitasackvillewest
― Carson McCullers
#nathachaappanah #harperlee #carsonmccullers #vitasackvillewest
March 12, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Amerigo Vespucci (1454), Leland Stanford (1824), Ernest Bevin (1881), Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), #VitaSackvilleWest (1892), Michael Kinsley (1951), Bobby Sands (1954), Fernando Bujones (1955), Juliette Binoche (1964) & Matteo Salvini (1973) were born #OnThisDay...
March 9, 2024 at 5:14 AM
Amerigo Vespucci (1454), Leland Stanford (1824), Ernest Bevin (1881), Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), #VitaSackvilleWest (1892), Michael Kinsley (1951), Bobby Sands (1954), Fernando Bujones (1955), Juliette Binoche (1964) & Matteo Salvini (1973) were born #OnThisDay...