Violet Trefusis

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Standard Name: Trefusis, Violet
Birth Name: Violet Keppel
Married Name: Violet Trefusis
Though VT is best known to literary history as a lover of English writer and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West , she wrote and published in a range of genres throughout her life, which spanned much of the twentieth century. These include diaries and letters, novels, memoirs, travel journalism, and radio broadcasting, composed in both English and French.
Head-and-shoulders portrait sketch of Violet Trefusis by William Bruce Ellis Ranken, 1919. Against a purple background, she looks straight at the viewer, wearing light purple dress and bright red lipstick. Her hair is chin-length, curly, and brown.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Vita Sackville-West
VSW and Violet Keppel (later Violet Trefusis ) spent the winter together in France (at Paris and Avignon) and at Monte Carlo.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
98-9
Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura.
143
Family and Intimate relationships Vita Sackville-West
VSW and the now married Violet Trefusiseloped to France, where they had previously enjoyed the freedom to enact the roles which went with their love-affair.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
108
Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura.
143
Education Nancy Cunard
After NC 's mother left her husband and moved to London, Nancy became a regular pupil at Miss Wolff 's School in South Audley Street, where she had previously attended some classes.
The surname...
Education Iris Tree
Sometime after 1904, IT and her next elder sister, Felicity, began attending Miss Wolff 's day school, an unconventional school held at the private home of Miss Wolff at South Audley Street, London. There...
Education Vita Sackville-West
At thirteen VSW began attending a small day school run by Helen Wolff (whose name is variously spelled in various sources) in South Audley Street, off Park Lane. The staff were mostly male. Vita...
Dedications Vita Sackville-West
She dedicated it to Violet Trefusis , using the initial L., short for the nickname Lushka.
death Colette
She was given a state funeral on 11 August, the first Frenchwoman to be accorded this honour. A somewhat inaccurate obituary in the Times drew responses from both Violet Trefusis and Margaret Crosland . Trefusis...

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