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
Material Conditions of Writing Vita Sackville-West
VSW began working on Reddin in 1921, on a boat off Italy. Having rebuilt her marriage after her affair with Violet Trefusis , she wanted to voice her philosophy of life. At this date...
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
In 1923 VSW was reviewing regularly for the Nation and Athenæum; she also contributed to The Observer, the London Mercury, and the New Statesman.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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She wrote the entry on...
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW began on Challenge in May 1918, early in her affair with Violet, and wrote most of it in Monte Carlo when the two were there together, reading it to Violet in the evenings for...
Dedications Vita Sackville-West
She dedicated it to Violet Trefusis , using the initial L., short for the nickname Lushka.
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.
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Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson.
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