VT
had minor erotic relationships with men, but her intimate experiences were dominated by lesbian affairs with author Vita Sackville-West
and other women. Though she did not formally indentify with any specific category or definition...
Literary responses
Violet Trefusis
Jullian
noted improvements in VT
's writing style since Sortie de secours.Écho was better received than the first novel, and proved even something of a best-seller.
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
The book was written collaboratively. As with Don't Look Round and Memoirs of an Armchair, Jullian
provided the illustrations; this time VT
's friend Frank Ashton-Gwatkin
helped her with her writing, and completed the...
Publishing
Elizabeth Bowen
EB
insisted on, and got, a jacket design by Philippe Jullian
.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
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Publishing
Violet Trefusis
VT
published her second and best-known memoir, Don't Look Round, with illustrations by her friend and later biographer, Philippe Jullian
.
Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson, 1953.
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Reception
Violet Trefusis
Don't Look Round was given a largely positive review in The Spectator by Harold Nicolson
, who maintained one reservation: [a]fter all. . . this is the world of the Ritz
.
qtd. in
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
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Philippe Jullian
Reception
Violet Trefusis
VT
's friend and biographer Philippe Jullian
likens this unpublished work to another young Edwardian's literary effort,
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
22
Daisy Ashford
's immensely popular narrative The Young Visiters (written in 1890, first published in 1919).
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
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Textual Features
Violet Trefusis
Sometimes autobiographical in theme, VT
's seven published novels (four in French, three in English) have been connected to the movements of her own life.Jullian
remarks that the novels come straight from her address...
Textual Production
Violet Trefusis
VT
and Philippe Jullian
collaborated on Memoirs of an Armchair, the translation of Jullian' Mémoires d'une bergère, a fantasy about a Tilliard
chair that observes a variety of historical and fictional events over...
Textual Production
Violet Trefusis
VT
and Vita Sackville-West corresponded frequently throughout their early friendship and love affair. Denys Trefusis
burned Vita's letters to his wife in a fit of rage in July 1920; Violet later informed Vita, though, that...
Timeline
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Texts
Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson, 1952.
Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson, 1953.
Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. From Dusk to Dawn. Tom Stacey, 1972.
Jullian, Philippe, and Philippe Jullian. Memoirs of an Armchair. Translator Trefusis, Violet, Hutchinson, 1960.
Jullian, Philippe. Oscar Wilde. Translator Wyndham, Violet, Constable, 1969.
Jullian, Philippe. “Spinoza got it”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 21, pp. 26-7.
Jullian, Philippe et al. The Other Woman. Houghton Mifflin, 1976.
Jullian, Philippe. The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons, and Republicans. George Allen and Unwin, 1981.
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.