Violet Trefusis

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Violet Keppel, 1919, by William Bruce Ellis Ranken
Violet with her mother, around 1899

Violet Trefusis , nee Keppel, (born June 6, 1894 in London , † February 29, 1972 in Florence ) was a British writer. She became known, among other things, through her relationship with Vita Sackville-West , which later served Virginia Woolf as a template for her novel Orlando .

Life

Violet Keppel grew up as the daughter of Alice Keppel and Sir George Keppel in Portman Square, London. Allegedly, the birth father of her younger sister Sonia Rosemary was King Edward . In 1918, her acquaintance with Vita Sackville-West (d. 1962), whom she had known from childhood, deepened into a deep love affair. The two women ran away to France together several times. In order to be able to rent hotels, Vita disguised himself as a soldier. The scandalous relationship at the time with this noble writer and gardener ( Sissinghurst Castle ) is largely documented in the published correspondence and the biography published by Nigel Nicolson , as well as in Vita's book Challenge , which she began to write with Violet.

On June 16, 1919, Violet Keppel married - more or less voluntarily so as not to endanger her reputation in society - the professional soldier Denys Robert Trefusis, who died in 1929 at the age of 39. During the Second World War she worked in the service of the French Army in London, for which she received the Order of the French Legion of Honor after the war . From 1923 until her death in 1943, her partner was the patron Winnaretta Singer . From 1947 Violet Trefusis lived in Florence in Italy until her death. She died in 1972 in her Villa dell 'Ombrellino in Florence.

Publications

  • Drunk with your beauty: Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West (letters 1910–1921). Ullstein (1995), ISBN 3-548-30363-3 .
  • Ringlein, Ringlein, you have to wander (novel). Ullstein (1988), ISBN 3-548-30202-5 .
  • The appearance of Anne Lindell (novel). BoD (1999), ISBN 3-89811-007-9 / Original title: Broderie Anglaise , Plon, Paris (1935)

literature

  • Nigel Nicolson: Portrait of a Marriage. Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (biography), Ullstein (2001), ISBN 3-548-30387-0 .
  • Philippe Jullian and John Philipps: Violet Trefusis. A biography , Mariner Books (1985), ISBN 0-15-693555-4 .
  • Philippe Jullian and John Philipps: The other woman. A life of Violet Trefusis, including previously unpublished correspondence with Vita Sackville-West , Houghton Mifflin ( n.d. ), ISBN 0-395-20539-5 .
  • Cécile Wajsbrot: Violet Trefusis , Mercure de France (1989), ISBN 2-7152-1589-4 .
  • Diana Souhami: Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter , Quercus (2013), ISBN 1-78087-880-X .
  • Henrietta Sharpe: A Solitary Woman: Live of Violet Trefusis , Constable (1981), ISBN 0-09-464140-4 .
  • Victoria Glendinning: Vita Sackville-West: a biography , Fischer (1994), ISBN 3-596-13552-4 .
  • Ines Rieder : Who with whom? - A hundred years of lesbian love. Famous women, their friends, lovers and life companions , Wiener Frauenverlag (1994), ISBN 3-85286-003-2 .

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