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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...
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    Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (1992) Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West 1910–1921 (edited by Mitchell...
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    Earl of Albemarle in 1696. George and Alice Keppel had two daughters: Violet Trefusis (6 June 1894 – 29 February 1972) and Sonia Cubitt (24 May 1900 – 16...
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    The Trefusis (/trəˈfjuːsɪs/) trə-FEW-sis family of Cornwall (anciently de Trefusis) continue in 2018 as lords of the manor of Trefusis, near Flushing in...
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    Sonia's only sibling was the English writer and socialite Violet Trefusis (née Keppel). Violet was known for her lesbian affair with writer Vita Sackville-West...
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    Quaker Violet Trefusis (1894–1972), English writer and socialite Violet Tweedale (1862–1936), Scottish author, poet, and spiritualist Violet Van der...
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  • Already. From 2012 to 2018, she played Venus Traduces (a parody of Violet Trefusis) and other roles in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Gloomsbury. Banks' later...
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  • programmes including Portrait of a Marriage (1990) in which she played Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville West's lesbian lover. She worked in British television...
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    reason for terminating her relationship with Trefusis, that she had slept with her husband Major Dennys Trefusis, was almost certainly false.: 65  The picture...
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  • extramarital affairs (especially Vita Sackville-West's 'elopement' with Violet Trefusis) with their enduring love for each other and caused an uproar when...
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    (although his paternity has been questioned) of the writer and socialite Violet Trefusis and of Mrs. Sonia Cubitt. The latter was the grandmother of Queen Camilla...
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    Interestingly, Wellesley had been engaged to Sackville-West's former lover Violet Trefusis before marrying Dorothy. Wellesley himself was rumoured to be bisexual...
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    A-X-25 Ernesto Michahelles (Thayaht) – Italian artist, Lot: E-V-22 Violet Trefusis – English and French writer, Lot: I-VIII-44 Reginald Turner (writer)...
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    intense relationship with Violet Trefusis that nearly wrecked her marriage. As Nicolson wrote in his diary, "Damn! Damn! Damn! Violet. How I loathe her". On...
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  • Harold Nicolson, Sackville-West's husband Benedict Nicolson, their son Violet Trefusis, her former lover Ethel Smyth, another later acquaintance of Virginia...
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    From 1923 to 1933, her lover was the British socialite and novelist Violet Trefusis, with whom she had a loving but often turbulent relationship. Alvilde...
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  • Cie (1975) Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters (with John Phillips), London: Hamish Hamilton (1976); The Other Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis, Including...
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  • Martin's Griffin. pp. 123–223. ISBN 978-0-312-19517-5. denys trefusis and violet trefusis. Frances Spalding. Virginia Woolf: Paper Darts: the Illustrated...
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    2 of autobiography The Last Edwardians: An Illustrated History of Violet Trefusis and Alice Keppel (1985) with John Phillips and Lorna Sage The Pursuit...
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    sources identify her as a lesbian. The de Meyers were characterised by Violet Trefusis—who counted Olga among her lovers and whose mother, Alice Keppel, was...
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    have been the father of Violet Trefusis (1894–1972), whose mother, Alice Keppel was a mistress of King Edward VII. Today, Violet is mainly remembered for...
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  • Cathryn Harrison as Violet Trefusis David Haig as Harold Nicolson Diana Fairfax as Lady Sackville Peter Birch as Denys Trefusis Kathleen Byron as Lady...
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  • and the brother of writer and politician Nigel. His godmothers were Violet Trefusis, Olive Custance and Rosamund Grosvenor. The boys grew up at Sissinghurst...
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  • by Sackville-West. They are centred on herself and her passion for Violet Trefusis for whom she abandoned Harold Nicolson, Vita's bisexual husband and...
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  • Charles Rodolph Trefusis, 19th Baron Clinton (9 November 1791 – 10 April 1866), styled The Honourable Charles Trefusis between 1794 and 1832, was a British...
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  • Between Two Worlds Philippe Sollers: Women Michel Tournier: The Ogre Violet Trefusis: Broderie Anglaise Todd, Andrew (4 March 2010). "Barbara Bray obituary"...
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    Sargent, posed by ladies of American birth in London. The other included Violet Trefusis and Lady Diana Cooper. By a quirk of English law, nudity on the stage...
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    lesbian and bisexual women in writing and artistic circles, among them Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville-West, and Colette. She also became involved with Suzy...
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  • 4 – Richard Church, English poet and novelist (born 1893 March 9 – Violet Trefusis, English writer (born 1894) March 11 – Fredric Brown, American genre...
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    redeveloped. Beckett was reputed to be the father of Violet Trefusis; the connection with Violet brought Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson as visitors...
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