On this day in 1892 the English poet, novelist, and gardener Vita Sackville-West was born in Kent, England. Sackville-West had a decade-long affair with fellow writer Virginia Woolf. Woolf used her as the inspiration for the androgynous title character of her famous novel "Orlando: A Biography":. Sackville-West’s son Nigel once referred to the novel as “the longest and most charming love-letter in literature.”