Philippe Jullian

VT had minor erotic relationships with men, but her intimate experiences were dominated by lesbian affairs with author Vita Sackville-West and other women. Though she did not formally indentify with any specific category or definition...

Jullian noted improvements in VT 's writing style since Sortie de secours.Écho was better received than the first novel, and proved even something of a best-seller. In 2009 Michael Holroyd wrote that...

EB insisted on, and got, a jacket design by Philippe Jullian .

VT published her second and best-known memoir, Don't Look Round, with illustrations by her friend and later biographer, Philippe Jullian .

The book was written collaboratively. As with Don't Look Round and Memoirs of an Armchair, Jullian provided the illustrations; this time VT 's friend Frank Ashton-Gwatkin helped her with her writing, and completed the...

VT 's friend and biographer Philippe Jullian likens this unpublished work to another young Edwardian's literary effort,Daisy Ashford 's immensely popular narrative The Young Visiters (written in 1890, first published in 1919).

Don't Look Round was given a largely positive review in The Spectator by Harold Nicolson , who maintained one reservation: [a]fter all. . . this is the world of the Ritz .Philippe Jullian

Sometimes autobiographical in theme, VT 's seven published novels (four in French, three in English) have been connected to the movements of her own life.Jullian remarks that the novels come straight from her address...

VT and Philippe Jullian collaborated on Memoirs of an Armchair, the translation of Jullian' Mémoires d'une bergère, a fantasy about a Tilliard chair that observes a variety of historical and fictional events over...

VT and Vita Sackville-West corresponded frequently throughout their early friendship and love affair. Denys Trefusis burned Vita's letters to his wife in a fit of rage in July 1920; Violet later informed Vita, though, that...