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...giving you information about myself, were it not that it sounds egotistic and rather snobbish. . . . My father is Lord Carnock, one of the founders of our entente with France, a friend of King Edward. ... In 1913, I married Victoria Sackville-West, only child of Lord and Lady Sackville of Knole, Kent who has written things of greater merit than anything I have done myself...
...mother was a Rowan Hamilton of County Down. Perhaps because he has Irish blood in him Harold George Nicolson is not the dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist his heredity and training meant him to be. Besides, his wife is Victoria Sackville-West-who, though one of the Sackvilles of Knole Castle, is a novelist of parts, her influence therefore subversive of public-school tradition. Through the regular mill of Oxford, crammer's school and Foreign Office, Harold Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more respect for poets than for potentates. Born in Teheran, Persia...
...find quite the same fascination in Family History. When her latest narrative goes so far as to make skeptical faces at Eton and at Eton's God, conservative readers will have to take comfort in remembering that Victoria Sackville-West's family have lived in 365-room Knole Castle since Queen Elizabeth's days that she is so aristocratic she can safely be allowed a certain latitude in criticizing home truths...
...only 39. Like her diplomatist husband. Harold Xicolson. she is of the quiet and well-mannered school, in the best tradition of English life & letters, a member of the gently brilliant Bloomsbury group that includes her good friends Virginia Woolf. Lytton Strachey, E. M. 1-orster. John Maynard Keynes. Knole Castle, her birthplace and the home of her ancestors, is one of the most celebrated houses in England, has 365 rooms, more years than (hat. When she is in England. Authoress Sackville-West lives with her husband and two sons at "Seven-oaks," near Knole Castle...
...little maids in flaring bright dresses, a golden-banged boy in absurdly small trousers?the Sackville children played on the greensward around their great ancestral Knole House, Sevenoaks, Kent.* There John Hoppner painted their portrait, a distinguished, worldly man who found innocence a better subject than sophistication. In 1797 his picture was finished, hung in Knole House. It has been there ever since...