When your grandmother is Vita Sackville-West, you can expect to have had an ... from her great-great-grandmother Pepita, a Spanish flamenco dancer, to her three-year-old granddaughter Imogen.

Her cousin Robert Sackville-West is its guardian ... who loves to dance with her own shadow (shades of Pepita) and to dig and plant like Vita. ‘She would take you by the hand, lead you ...

Vita Sackville-West. Victoria was the illegitimate child of Lord Sackville of Knole and a Spanish dancer Pepita, who died when Victoria was still a young girl. Their daughter grew up to be a ...

In the famous image of Vita Sackville-West, Lady with a Red Hat ... was in conflict with the Latin blood from her grandmother Pepita, a Spanish dancer who was the mistress of Lionel, Baron ...

“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia…It is incredible how essential to me you have become,” wrote Vita Sackville-West to the novelist Virginia Woolf in 1926. A popular writer ...

Vita Sackville-West is now largely remembered for her Bloomsbury connections and her love life, as recorded in her son Nigel Nicolson's bestselling Portrait of a Marriage. She was, however ...

Vita Sackville-West died 50 years ago this month. What was it about her unique style that inspires gardeners today? The gardens at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent created by Vita Sackville-West and ...