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6-28-15

Why Vita Sackville-West Was Not a Gay Icon During Her Lifetime

by Matthew Dennison

An intensely secretive nature, and old-fashioned sense of ‘good behavior’ and British laws criminalizing homosexuality, kept the writer and gardener firmly in the closet.

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Why Vita Sackville-West Was Not a Gay Icon During Her Lifetime

by Matthew Dennison