Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo.
15-17
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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... |
Textual Features | Violet Trefusis | 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... |
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. 15-17 |
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. 300 |
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. 49 |
Textual Production | Violet Trefusis | 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
... |
Residence | Violet Trefusis | Also by the time of the trip to Ceylon, Mrs Keppel
arranged the family's move to 16 Grosvenor Street, London. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 96-7 |
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 Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 118 |
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. 167-8 |
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. 230 |
Travel | Violet Trefusis | 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... |
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. 107 |
Travel | Violet Trefusis | 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... |
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