Alice Keppel

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

VT 's mother, Alice Keppel , died from liver sclerosis in Florence.

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...

VT 's first novel written and published in English, Tandem, dedicated to her mother , was brought out by Heinemann .

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...

She was born into an affluent and socially prominent British family with links to the nobility, which made game of contemporary moral codes in private while upholding them in public. She first rebelled against the...

VT 's acquaintance Nancy Mitford suggested that VT should call this book Here Lies Madame Trefusis. In a letter of July 1941, Vita Sackville-West told Trefusis that she ought to dedicate this book...

VT 's mother, Alice Frederica (Edmonstone) Keppel , was born in 1869 to Mary Elizabeth (Parsons) and William Edmonstone at Duntreath Castle near Loch Lomond, Scotland. Alice married George Keppel in 1891, but...

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 ...

Sonia Rosemary Keppel , VT 's only sibling, was born in 1900. Sonia was also a writer. At thirteen she wrote a novel about a loveless marriage: it was burned by her mother ...