Alice Keppel

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 .

VT , like Alice Keppel , spent part of the war at endless parties, even if in wartime conditions none of them could compete with her parties at the Eiffel Tower. Her re-entry...

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.

VT travelled through Africa, Europe, and North and South America with her the Princesse de Polignac , husband , andparents .

As a young woman at home before the First World War she wrote poetry which she was eager to discuss with her friends and those of her mother. She had some of these poems privately...

Having fled from Paris, VT very reluctantly returned with her mother to safety in England from now Nazi -occupied France on a Royal Navy troop ship.

VT often wrote privately about her intimate experiences and perceptions. When, during the summer of 1920, in the midst of the controversy surrounding her relationship with Vita Sackville-West , she was sent to Scotland with...

Alice Keppel financed her daughter VT 's move to the Manor House at West Coker in Somerset.

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...

VT 's mother, Alice Keppel , died from liver sclerosis in Florence.

Her novels were lightly received and sometimes disparaged by readers. Alice Keppel referred to her daughter's writing with inverted commas: (writing). Late in VT 's career, Vita Sackville-Westaccused her of scribbling...

VT 's first novel written and published in English, Tandem, dedicated to her mother , was brought out by Heinemann .