By the end of 1910, VT
had become romantically involved with Alan Parsons
, whom she had met at Brancaster in Norfolk. At the beginning of their courtship, she was still studying music in...
Family and Intimate relationships
Viola Tree
VT
married civil servant and drama critic Alan Parsons
in a grand wedding at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square.
Bingham, Madeleine. ’The Great Lover’. H. Hamilton, 1978.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Viola Tree
VT
's husband, Alan Parsons
, died at the early age of forty-four.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Friends, Associates
Iris Tree
She met Denys Finch Hatton
while he was still a boy at school (through Alan Parsons
, who later married her sister Viola) and he was sometimes her escort to the opera while he was...
Author summary
Viola Tree
Best known for her acting career, which began in the early years of the twentieth century and ended in the thirties, VT
was also an opera singer and a theatre manager. She published an autobiography...
Publishing
Viola Tree
Heinemann
published VT
's unusual biography of her husband, Alan Parsons
' Book, A Story in Anthology, which she had first offered to the Hogarth Press
.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(16 November 1938): 9
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Viola Tree
VT
's autobiography incorporates diary entries, letters written and received while she studied singing in Milan, and personal memories. I print these letters now, she wrote, partly for my own edification, and partly, I...