Touched by the death in war of Lady Desborough
's son Julian Grenfell
and by his mother's memorialising of him in a privately printed biographical book, VM
asked her for permission to write an essay...
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Trefusis
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls Violet's feeling for the poet Julian Grenfella more serious attachment than that to Wellesley. Grenfell, who wrote at least one still-remembered poem (Into Battle) and...
