Violet Trefusis

-
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
Publishing Vita Sackville-West
VSW 's Challenge, a novel based on her love-affair with Violet Trefusis , appeared in New York from George H. Doran ; it remained unpublished in Britain until 1974.
Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. “Foreword”. Challenge, Collins, pp. 7-11.
7
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...
Friends, Associates Edith Sitwell
ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...
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...
Friends, Associates Rebecca West
RW again met Violet Trefusis in Florence (whom she had known slightly in England), and they became lifelong friends.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
56-7
Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson.
71-2

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.