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Violet Trefusis (née Keppel; 6 June 1894 – 29 February 1972) was an English socialite and author. She is chiefly remembered for her lengthy affair with the writer Vita Sackville-West that both women continued after their respective marriages.
Jun 5, 2014 · The surviving letters, beginning in 1910 when Violet was sixteen and Vita eighteen, capture the exultant and anguishing whirlwind of love so passionate yet so utterly quixotic in the context of their era’s bigotry toward same-sex romance.
Oct 10, 2018 · You may know the love story of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. But do you know the love triangle? Violet Trefusis's tragicomic novels responded directly to her portrayal in Orlando.
Violet Trefusis (née Keppel) (1894-1972), Writer; daughter of Alice Keppel. Sitter in 29 portraits. Violet Trefusis was a writer and a patron of the arts. She wrote nine novels (five in English, four in French), poems, articles on Travels and Art, essays, short-stories, plays and epigrams.
Trefusis, Violet (1894–1972) English novelist, memoirist, and salon hostess. Born Violet Keppel in London, England, on June 6, 1894; died at the Villa l'Ombrellino in Florence, Italy, onMarch 1, 1972; daughter of Colonel George Keppel (an army officer and brother of the earl of Albemarle) and Alice (Edmonstone) Keppel (1869–1947); sister of ...
Mar 20, 1977 · Violet Trefusis (1894‐1972) was not one of the major talents of her time. She cannot be said even to belong to the famous Bloomsbury Group. Yet her life intermingled fatefully with the life of...
Mar 20, 2020 · Violet Trefusis is mostly known today for a slim volume of her published love letters addressed to Vita Sackville-West, aristocratic author of novels such as All Passion Spent (1931) and creator of the famed gardens at her ancestral home of Sissinghurst.
