Vita Sackville-West: Selected WritingsAristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel narrative, historical and literary studies, poetry, fiction, and essays, and is probably best known or her novels, The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, and incomparable writings about English country houses and gardens.