Van wie was Virginia Woolf?

Virginia Woolf (South Kensington (Londen), 25 januari 1882 – Lewes (Sussex), 28 maart 1941) was een Britse schrijfster en feministe. Ze was stichtend lid van de Bloomsburygroep en werd in het interbellum een belangrijke figuur in het literaire leven van Londen.

Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.

Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf.

She wrote a column in The Observer from 1946 to 1961 and is remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst in Kent, created with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson.