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A remarkable woman in her own right and a highly gifted writer, Violet Trefusis is especially remembered for her scandalous affair with Vita Sackville-West, first disclosed in Portrait of a Marriage. After their abortive flight from their husbands in 1920, Vita returned to England and her writing, and Violet became an expatriate, immersing herself in international society and the world of art.
Violet Keppel (subsequently Trefusis) was born on the 6 th June 1894 in London. As a child she has lively intellectual curiosity and an infallibly quick eye. The smart and refined environment of her childhood offers Violet’s receptive mind the opportunity to create a personal beau ideal made up of harmony, good taste, and respect for beauty.
Vita Sackville-West and Violet Trefusis (née Keppel) met at a party in the winter of 1905, when Violet was ten and Vita twelve. From the beginning, their relationship was intense, and the constant travels of both families created the necessity of an ongoing and voluminous correspondence (Vita's early letters to Violet were burned by Violet's husband, Denys Trefusis, on their honeymoon).
ings by Sackville-West, Violet Trefusis, and Woolf, allusive, evasive, and teasing, a figure around whom fantasies and desires coalesce.The tentative identification with the gypsies in Sackville-West's letter to Woolf is an undercurrent in all three writers, a tug toward"gypsiness" that functions, I argue, as a hint of same-sex desire.
Violet Trefusis, née Keppel (1894–1972), English writer and socialite. Fictional. Miss Emily Trefusis, amateur detective in The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie. Professor Donald Trefusis (1921–2008), professor at the University of Cambridge, created by Stephen Fry. Dr. Trefusis, tutor in volumes 1 and 2 of the "Octavian Nothing" novel ...
29 de ene. de 2020 · Violet to Vita : the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21 by Trefusis, Violet, 1894-1972. Publication date 1990 Topics
Violet Trefusis. Violet Keppel, the elder daughter of Alice Keppel, was born at 2 Wilton Crescent, London, on 6th June 1894. Keppell was the mistress of Edward VII but it was later established that her real father was Ernest William Beckett (1856–1917), the Conservative MP for Whitby. Violet Keppel educated by a French governess and at Helen ...
