Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter, (Paperback)

from shojo_a

I'd read Violet and Vita's letters to each other a few years ago, so I knew all the basics, but it was nice to get Mrs. Keppel's story as well. Violet and Vita always strike as so sad, because it's so much misery and heartbreak and emotional cruelness and desperation, all because they couldn't be...

from shojo_a

I'd read Violet and Vita's letters to each other a few years ago, so I knew all the basics, but it was nice to get Mrs. Keppel's story as well. Violet and Vita always strike as so sad, because it's so much misery and heartbreak and emotional cruelness and desperation, all because they couldn't be...

from majesdane

I hadn't heard of Violet Trefusis until I watched the mini-series adaption of "Portrait of a Marriage"; but after that, I wanted to know everything about her. Arguably Vita Sackville-West's affair with Virginia Woolf has become more famous over time than her affair with Violet, but I think that t...

from Sarahursula

A middle-aged woman walks into a Parisian drawing room, eccentrically dressed, very good jewels and her face caked with makeup. She is rich, clever, nasty and cutting. She is Violet Trefusis and regularly laughed at and mocked by her fellow English expatriates. And yet as this brilliant book reve...

from ponsonby

This book tells the story of Alice Keppel, mistress of Edward VII, and her daughter Violet Trefusis, who was famous mostly for her lengthy and tortuous relationship with the writer Vita Sackville-West. Violet is the second, perhaps the main, subject of the book. It can be viewed as a hatchet job ...