? The Artist?s Estate
Lady Margaret Sackville, 1881 - 1963. Poet
- Scottish Art
Born in London to the Earl and Countess De La War, Lady Margaret Sackville was a poet and children?s author. Little is known about her early years, but at sixteen she was `discovered? by the poet Wilfrid Scawen, who became a friend and admirer. During the First World War Sackville published `The Pageant of War?, a collection of anti-war poems that criticised women?s support of the war as betrayal of their sons. She spent much of her adult life in Midlothian and Edinburgh, where she was a member of the Whitehouse Terrace salon, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the first president of the Scottish PEN. In 1936 she moved to Cheltenham, where she lived until her death in 1963.
