Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | VT
's father, George Keppel
, was a peer's son who bore the courtesy title of the Honourable. His family had settled in England in the seventeenth century and had served the British royal... |
Publishing | Gertrude Stein | |
Reception | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
has been a magnet for biographers (recently as the subject with Romaine Brooks
of Diana Souhami
's Wild Girls in 2004 and as a minor character in Joan Schenkar
's Truly Wilde: the Unsettling... |
Residence | Violet Trefusis | After the deaths of her parents, VT
divided her time between residences and friends in Florence and France. At this stage in her life she focused especially on lavish home restorations. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 291-5 |
Textual Features | Violet Trefusis | 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... |
Textual Features | Violet Trefusis | |
Textual Production | Violet Trefusis | On 14 May 1918, four days after the end of her first romantic holiday with VT
, Vita Sackville-West
began writing her novel Challenge (titled Rebellion in its early stages). It is clearly based on... |
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