[英] 薇塔·萨克维尔

About the Author

Vita Sackville-West, the renowned English author and poet, was born in 1892 into an aristocratic family at Knole, a grand estate that would later inspire her literary works. A key figure in the Bloomsbury Group, she formed a celebrated literary and romantic partnership with Virginia Woolf, whose novel Orlando was a thinly veiled tribute to Vita's life and androgynous allure. Sackville-West's writing often wove together her passions for gardening, travel, and the English countryside, reflecting her own experiences as a landowner and avid horticulturist at Sissinghurst Castle. Her novel All Passion Spent (一切愁云消散 in Chinese edition) exemplifies her elegant prose and exploration of themes like love, loss, and female independence. Throughout her prolific career, she produced poetry, biographies, and novels that captured the nuances of early 20th-century society, leaving an enduring legacy in modernist literature.