‘The heart of the house’: Knole House through the lens of Woolf’s Orlando by Hannah McCann on August 16, 2021 share 0 Vita and Virginia In the summer of 1940, as the German invasion of Britain seemed imminent, Vita Sackville-West sent her most treasured possessions to safety. Vita was living at Sissinghurst, a grand but now ruined Elizabethan house, read more