Violet Keppel Trefusis
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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.
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Violet Keppel, 1919, William Bruce Ellis Ranken
President François Mitterrand, one of Trefusis's close friends
Villa dell'Ombrellino, Florence, Italy
Vita Sackville-West in 1916
Violet Trefusis by Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942), oil on canvas/NPG 5229, 1926
Grave of Violet Trefusis and her parents, George and Alice Keppel, in the Cimitero degli Allori, FlorenceAwards 2
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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 for aspects of the character Lady Montdore in Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate and of Muriel in Harold Acton's The Soul's Gymnasium (1982).
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