Alice Keppel

For Christmas 1923, the Princesse de Polignac took VT on a luxury cruise up the Nile; their group included Denys Trefusis and George and Alice Keppel , all of whom were aware of and...

Alice Keppel purchased in 1924 a villa overlooking Florence, named Ombrellino. It had once been Galileo 's home; contemporary neighbours included Mabel Dodge and Harold Acton . By 1934 Ombrellino had become VT 's...

VT travelled through Africa, Europe, and North and South America with her the Princesse de Polignac , husband , andparents .

As a young woman at home before the First World War she wrote poetry which she was eager to discuss with her friends and those of her mother. She had some of these poems privately...

Major holdings of VT 's papers are at the Beinecke Library at Yale University . This collection includes letters between her and Vita Sackville-West from 1940 onwards, and from Edward VII to Alice Keppel ...

The novel was written in English and is set in Spain. VT 's biographer Diana Souhami suggests that VT wrote herself into this piece as Cécile, an innocent young wife, Vita Sackville-West as both...

The novel details the literary and romantic triangles among writer Anne Lindell (a sketch to some extent inspired by VT herself), the former lover of aristocrat John Shorne (Sackville-West ), who is having an...

Having fled from Paris, VT very reluctantly returned with her mother to safety in England from now Nazi -occupied France on a Royal Navy troop ship.

Alice Keppel financed her daughter VT 's move to the Manor House at West Coker in Somerset.

Also by the time of the trip to Ceylon, Mrs Keppel arranged the family's move to 16 Grosvenor Street, London.

VT often wrote privately about her intimate experiences and perceptions. When, during the summer of 1920, in the midst of the controversy surrounding her relationship with Vita Sackville-West , she was sent to Scotland with...

Her novels were lightly received and sometimes disparaged by readers. Alice Keppel referred to her daughter's writing with inverted commas: (writing). Late in VT 's career, Vita Sackville-Westaccused her of scribbling...

Over three hundred guests attended the coming-out ball of Violet Keppel (later VT ) at 16 Grosvenor Street, which her mother, Alice Keppel , coordinated with military precision.

VT , like Alice Keppel , spent part of the war at endless parties, even if in wartime conditions none of them could compete with her parties at the Eiffel Tower. Her re-entry...

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...