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June 2, 1962: English poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West died at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, aged seventy. Born at Knole House in Kent to Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville, and Victoria Sackville-Wes, she was a successful novelist, poet, and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist who published more than a dozen collections of poetry as well as thirteen novels during her lifetime. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature. She was the inspiration for the androgynous protagonist of 'Orlando: A Biography', by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf.

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