Obituary MISS V. SACKVILLEWEST
[Reprinted by arrangement from “Yorkshire Post"] Miss Victoria SackvilleWest. the novelist, and wife of Sir Harold Nicolson, has died at her home. Sissinghurst Castle. Kent, after a few months’ illness. She was 70. She was the daughter of the third Baron Sackville. and married Sir Harold Nicolson in 1913. Mies Sack-ville-West began writing in early childhood, and had been writing ever since. A long poem, ‘‘The Land,” won her the Hawthornden Prize in 1927, and she was awarded the Heinemann Prize in 1947 for another poem, "The Garden." She was made a Companion of Honour, in 1948. for her services to literature. She leaves two sons. Mr Lionel Benedict Nicolson. editor of the Burlington Magazine. and Mr Nigel Nicolson. director of a publishing firm
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29853, 20 June 1962, Page 2
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