Victoria Sackville-West, Baroness Sackville

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Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina Sackville-West, Baroness Sackville (1862–1936) was the wife of her cousin Lionel Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville and the mother of writer and socialite Vita Sackville-West.

[edit] Early life, daughter's notoriety

She was the illegitimate daughter of the Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville and the Spanish dancer Josefa de la Oliva (née Durán y Ortega, known as Pepita). Her life is mostly overshadowed by the high-profile and controversial lesbian lifestyle of her daughter, Vita, whose up and down and often volatile relationship with Violet Trefusis was the subject of gossip for several years.

[edit] Houses

She had Edwin Lutyens design a house for her at Roedean, another for her guests at Worthing, and yet another in London. Edwin Lutyens had ‘two ladies’, Gertrude Jekyll and Victoria, who were each ‘closer than friends’.[1]