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Violet Keppel, dite Trefusis (Londres, 6 juin 1894 - Florence, 1 er mars 1972), est une écrivaine britannique, membre de la haute société anglaise. On la connaît surtout pour sa liaison saphique avec Vita Sackville-West , qui a été transposée dans Orlando : Une biographie , roman de Virginia Woolf .
Violet Trefusis 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. It was featured in novels by both parties; in Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography; and in many letters and memoirs of the period roughly from 1912 to 1922. She may have been the inspiration ...
Violet Trefusis (née Keppel) 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. In 1950 General Catroux awards her with Légion d’honneur as femme de lettres; In 1953 the president of Paris Council ...
Series I, Correspondence (1939-1956), contains letters to and from Violet Trefusis. The majority of the correspondence consists of 72 letters to John Phillips, whom Trefusis met in 1960. In them she discusses her life in Florence, Paris and Saint-Loup-de-Naud, her travels around Europe, her health, and her many friends and acquaintances.
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).
11 de fev. de 2010 · Michael Holroyd. Violet Trefusis was born on 6 June 1894, the elder daughter of Alice Keppel, a famously discreet mistress of the future Edward VII. ‘I wonder if I shall ever squeeze as much romance into my life as she has had in hers,’ Violet wrote in the summer of 1918 to Vita Sackville-West. She had begun to squeeze a very indiscreet ...
W.Heinemann. London, 1933. “Violette Tréfusis is an essential authoress: the sincerity of inspiration cannot be classified in terms of literary fashion, so it has the added value of originality and freshness. And, above all, it is a timeless style of writing.”.
