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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.
Violet Trefusis (nascida Keppel; Londres, Inglaterra, 6 de junho de 1894 – Bellosguardo, Itália, 1 de março de 1972) foi uma escritora e socialite inglesa. Ela é lembrada principalmente por seu relacionamento lésbico com a famosa poetisa e romancista Vita Sackville-West . [ 1 ]
5 de jun. de 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. In October of 1910, 16-year-old Violet replies — in French, and with exquisite candor — to a letter ...
10 de out. de 2018 · Though monogamy wasn’t prized by the Edwardian nobility, marriage was obligatory. Shortly after her twenty-fifth birthday, in June 1919, Violet was all but frog-marched down the aisle. The groom, Denys Trefusis, was a tall, blue-eyed war hero who, at least in the eyes of society, was a peerlessly desirable match. Violet liked him well enough.
Who is Violet Trefusis? Portrait of Violet Trefusis (1926) by Jacques-Emile Blanche (see Wikimedia Commons) According to Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present, George Moore was introduced to Violet Keppel Trefusis (1894-1972) by her mother Alice Edmonstone Keppel (1868-1947), "one of the most prominent society hostesses of the Edwardian era."…
Violet Trefusis’ Florence. L’esprit de Violette is the true story of a remarkable woman and her cosmopolitan esprit. A double biopic of Violet Trefusis, writer, cosmopolitan intellectual and patron of the arts; and of her city of Florence, where she lived in the beautiful Villa dell’Ombrellino. Between the 50s’ and the end of the 60’s ...
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 Sonia Keppel (1900–1986); married Denys Robert ...
