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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In Don't Look Round, she remembers that the idea of matrimony crept insidiously into our conversation, because Osbert felt a schoolboy adulation for Mrs Keppel , while Violet was infatuated both with Renishaw...

Alice Keppel strongly disapproved of the relationship between Violet and Vita for many reasons, including the threat posed by the growing scandal over it to Sonia Keppel 's upcoming marriage into a staunchly conservative English family.

In March 1919 VT gave in to her mother 's wishes and agreed to marry Denys Trefusis , a Major in the Royal Horse Guards serving in Belgium, whom Violet met when he returned...

Because the Princesse was wealthy, well-connected, and discreet, Alice Keppel had no objection to this affair.

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...

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.

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...