Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997.
167-8
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Cultural formation | Violet Trefusis | 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. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 167-8 |
Cultural formation | Violet Trefusis | 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... |
death | Violet Trefusis | She died in her mother
's bed. In keeping with her request, her ashes were scattered over her mother's grave in Florence, and at her own home, St Loup. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 306 |
Dedications | Violet Trefusis | VT
's acquaintance Nancy Mitford
suggested that VT
should call this book Here Lies Madame Trefusis. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 300 |
Dedications | Violet Trefusis | VT
's first novel written and published in English, Tandem, dedicated to her mother
, was brought out by Heinemann
. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1635 (1 June 1933): 381 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 74 Holroyd, Michael. “A Tale of Three Novels”. London Review of Books, Vol. 32 , No. 3, 11 Feb. 2010, pp. 31-2. 31 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | 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. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 15-17 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Sonia Rosemary Keppel
, VT
's only sibling, was born in 1900. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 49 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | In Don't Look Round, she remembers that the idea of matrimony crept insidiously into our conversation, because Osbert felt a schoolboy adulation qtd. in Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 118 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Because the Princesse
was wealthy, well-connected, and discreet, Alice Keppel
had no objection to this affair. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 230 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | VT
's mother, Alice Keppel
, died from liver sclerosis in Florence. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 289-90 |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | Violet Keppel (later VT
) became acquainted, initially through her mother
's connections, with Diaghilev
, Nijinsky
, and Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina
, as well as authors George Moore
and Hugh Walpole
. Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 32-3 |
Leisure and Society | Violet Trefusis | 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. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 107 |
Leisure and Society | Violet Trefusis | VT
, like Alice Keppel
, spent part of the war at endless parties, qtd. in Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 281 |
No timeline events available.
No bibliographical results available.