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Carol Anshaw paints Vita Sackville-West: A contemporary lesbian novelist looks back at queer history.
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Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of the English writer and garden designer, Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson (1892-1962), Bain News Service, c. 1915 Stock Photo - Alamy
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Victoria Mary 'Vita' Sackville-West English poet and novelist | Reproductions of famous paintings for your wall
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Carol Anshaw paints Vita Sackville-West: A contemporary lesbian novelist looks back at queer history.
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) in Ellen Terry's 1895 Costume for 'Portia' in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, for the Masque at Knole, 3 July 1910 1118225 | National Trust Collections
![Vita' (The Honourable Victoria Mary) Sackville-West (1892–1962), Later Lady Nicholson, in Ellen Terry's 1895 Costume for 'Portia' in William Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice', for the Masque at Knole, 3 July 1910 | Art UK Vita' (The Honourable Victoria Mary) Sackville-West (1892–1962), Later Lady Nicholson, in Ellen Terry's 1895 Costume for 'Portia' in William Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice', for the Masque at Knole, 3 July 1910 | Art UK](https://d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net/w944h944/collection/NTIV/SMAP/NTIV_SMAP_1118225-001.jpg)