[PDF] Violet To Vita eBook

Author : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 1998-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226583570

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Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of her love affair with Violet Keppel Trefusis in 1920 is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, Nigel Nicolson combines his mother's vivid memoir of escapade with what he learned from copious family letters and explains the context of this romantic crisis. He also describes how Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson went on to live the rest of their lives in harmonious marriage.

Author : Michael Holroyd
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429969210

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A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction title for 2011 On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters that move through Michael Holroyd's new book are destined never to meet, yet the Villa Cimbrone unites them all. A Book of Secrets is a treasure trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements, and family mysteries. With grace and tender imagination, Holroyd brings a company of unknown women into the light. From Alice Keppel, the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales; to Eve Fairfax, a muse of Auguste Rodin; to the novelist Violet Trefusis, the lover of Vita Sackville-West—these women are always on the periphery of the respectable world. Also on the margins is the elusive biographer, who on occasion turns an appraising eye upon himself as part of his investigations in the maze of biography. In A Book of Secrets, Holroyd gives voice to fragile human connections and the mystery of place.

Author : Violet Trefusis
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780670835416

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Sauge, bored with her husband and Paris, leaves for a soujourn in her aunt's inhospitable Scottish castle, where she encounters her savage and androgynous twin cousins, Malcolm and his sister Jean, who elicit an ambiguous sexual response from Sauge.

Author : Violet Trefusis
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 1985
Category : England
ISBN : 9780156141673

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The love affair of Vita Sackville-West and Violet Trefuis was described by Sackville-West in her novel Challenge and by Virginia Woolf as a episode in Orlando. Violet Trefusis in this roman a clef provides a view from the third side fo the triangle. Translated by Barbara Bray; Introduction by Victoria Glendinning.

Author : Violet Trefusis
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Autobiografie van de Engelse schrijfster en societyfiguur.

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525433988

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Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane—a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India—everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle Lady Slane has other ideas. First she defies the patronizing meddling of her children and escapes to a rented house in Hampstead. There, to her offspring’s utter amazement, she revels in her new freedom, recalls her youthful ambitions, and gathers some very unsuitable companions—who reveal to her just how much she had sacrificed under the pressure of others’ expectations.

Author : Diana Souhami
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466883502

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Alice Keppel, the married lover of Queen Victoria's eldest son and great-grandmother to Camilla Parker-Bowles, was a key figure in Edwardian society. Hers was the acceptable face of adultery. Discretion was her hallmark. It was her art to be the king's mistress and yet to laud the Royal Family and the institution of marriage. Formidable and manipulative, her attentions to the king brought her wealth, power, and status. Her daughter Violet Trefusis had a long tempestuous affair with the author and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West, during which Vita left her husband and two sons to travel abroad with Violet. It was a liaison that threatened the fabric of Violet's social world, and her passion and recalcitrance in pursuit of it pitted her against her mother and society. From memoirs, diaries, and letters, Diana Souhami portrays this fascinating and intense mother/daughter relationship in Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Her story of these women, their lovers, and their lovers' mothers, highlights Edwardian - and contemporary - duplicity and double standards and goes to the heart of questions about sexual freedoms.

Author : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1474610862

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The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. 'Vita and Harold have become part of our literature' OBSERVER The marriage of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson was one of the most controversial relationships of the 20th century. This selection of letters, many of which have never been published, skilfully woven together by their son, Nigel Nicolson, gives dramatic new insight into their fascinating lives. Set within a framework of their son's highly personal memories, the story of this most extraordinary of marriages comes full circle - from the announcement of their engagement in 1912, through the storm days of Vita's well-known affairs with Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf, during the years of long separation as Harold's profession as a diplomat took him abroad, and culminating in the days leading up to Vita's death in 1962.

Author : Philippe Jullian
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Biography of Violet Trefusis (1894-1972), English writer.