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.

A hundred years ago this year, on October 1, 1913, my grandparents, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson ... Vita's own grandmother had been a Spanish gipsy from Malaga and Andalusia became ...

Pepita, her grandmother Vita Sackville-West and her mother Philippa - all of whom have shaped and formed, in extraordinary ways, exactly who she has become today. We journey through the slums of ...

In the famous image of Vita Sackville-West ... with the Latin blood from her grandmother Pepita, a Spanish dancer who was the mistress of Lionel, Baron Sackville. Among their illegitimate ...

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 ...

Except for Victoria. It is a long story, told here and in “Inheritance”, and by Victoria’s daughter, Vita Sackville-West, in “Pepita” (1937). The point was that Victoria married her ...

“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 ...