Violet to Vita

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Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Violet to Vita by : Violet Trefusis

Download or read book Violet to Vita written by Violet Trefusis and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Broderie Anglaise

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Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156141673
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (416 download)

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Book Synopsis Broderie Anglaise by : Violet Trefusis

Download or read book Broderie Anglaise written by Violet Trefusis and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Echo

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Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670835416
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (354 download)

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Book Synopsis Echo by : Violet Trefusis

Download or read book Echo written by Violet Trefusis and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1990 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Don't Look Round

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Don't Look Round by : Violet Trefusis

Download or read book Don't Look Round written by Violet Trefusis and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiografie van de Engelse schrijfster en societyfiguur.

A Solitary Woman

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Publisher : Constable & Robinson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis A Solitary Woman by : Henrietta Sharpe

Download or read book A Solitary Woman written by Henrietta Sharpe and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 1981 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Violet Trefusis

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Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Violet Trefusis by : Philippe Jullian

Download or read book Violet Trefusis written by Philippe Jullian and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1976 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Violet Trefusis (1894-1972), English writer.

Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466883502
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by : Diana Souhami

Download or read book Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter written by Diana Souhami and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Pirates at Play

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Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9781860492341
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (923 download)

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Book Synopsis Pirates at Play by : Violet Trefusis

Download or read book Pirates at Play written by Violet Trefusis and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the frenetic, fantastical Twenties, this romantic comedy begins as young Elizabeth Caracole (pronounced 'Crackle') is sent by her aristocratic parents to be finished in Florence with the family of a Papal count - and Papal dentist. There are no less than five sons, as well as the beautiful ambitious Vica, who has plans of her own. As does formidable old Principessa Arrivumale - for her nephew, Gian Galeazzo. The arrival of two Elgnlishmen sets in motion and intricate emotional dance which weaves around Italy and England, and includes a vivid and splendid cast of supporting characters.

Portrait of a Marriage

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226583570
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (835 download)

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Book Synopsis Portrait of a Marriage by : Nigel Nicolson

Download or read book Portrait of a Marriage written by Nigel Nicolson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Violet Trefusis

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Publisher : Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156935555
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (355 download)

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Book Synopsis Violet Trefusis by : Philippe Jullian

Download or read book Violet Trefusis written by Philippe Jullian and published by Harcourt. This book was released on 1985 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the British writer and artist and focuses on her personal relationship with Vita Sackville-West

A Book of Secrets

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429969210
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis A Book of Secrets by : Michael Holroyd

Download or read book A Book of Secrets written by Michael Holroyd and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette

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Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814209645
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Book Synopsis The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette by : Helen Southworth

Download or read book The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette written by Helen Southworth and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might the author of Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own have in common with the author of the Claudine series and The Pure and the Impure? Resisting long-held interpretations that Colette and Virginia Woolf had little in common, Southworth shows here the links between the two famous writers, both real and imagined. Often cast in their diametrically opposed roles of elitist bluestocking and risque music hall performer, critics have overlooked the many ways in which the lives and works of Woolf and Colette intersect. This study provides a broad-ranging introduction to the biographical, stylistic, and thematic ties that link the lives and works of Britain's and France's first ladies of letters of the early twentieth century. Situating the two writers within an international network of artists and literati, including Jacques-Emile Blanche, Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge. Winnie de Polignac, Gisele Freund, Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, Vita Sackville-West and Violet Trefusis, this study complicates conceptions of the differences--national, sexual, cultural, and intellectual--which have kept these two women apart by placing these same differences at its center. Southworth develops work already undertaken on Woolf's contacts with France and adds to the body of comparative work on Woolf and her contemporaries. This study also highlights as yet unexplored connections between Colette and her British and American peers. Southworth's book makes a significant contribution to gay and lesbian studies and the study of modernist culture. It also demonstrates the potential of social network theory for literary studies.

Vita and Harold

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1474610862
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Book Synopsis Vita and Harold by : Nigel Nicolson

Download or read book Vita and Harold written by Nigel Nicolson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Trespassers

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571294944
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Book Synopsis Trespassers by : Julia O'Faolain

Download or read book Trespassers written by Julia O'Faolain and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her mother, who wrote vivid versions of old Irish folk tales, once said of the Irish Civil War: 'In those days... fear kept you from sleeping, but also from getting fat or bored.' Her father was Director of Publicity for the IRA during that savage conflict. He made bombs. A brilliant writer, his first book of stories was banned and he was summoned by his old IRA comrades to be court-martialled for writing it. He became one of Ireland's most celebrated writers and a radical dissident during the 1940s, challenging Church and State for their betrayal of the people's needs. His affairs with Elizabeth Bowen and many other women were betrayals of a more intimate kind. This was the backdrop to Julia O'Faolain's childhood. Her life is filled with great characters: Frank O'Connor, Paul Henry, Garret Fitzgerald, Hubert Butler, Patrick Kavanagh and Richard Ellman; and later, in their villas outside Florence, Harold Acton and Violet Trefusis, along with a cast of prim communists and raffish reactionary aristocrats. This is a book about being an outsider looking in, a trespasser in Ireland and in other countries - France, Italy in the late 1950s, the West Coast during the turbulent sixties - and also in other lives, the permanent temptation of the creative writer.

Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser

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Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752473948
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Book Synopsis Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser by : Raymond Lamont-Brown

Download or read book Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser written by Raymond Lamont-Brown and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed look at the two women in the life of Edward VII during his last years. Alice Keppel, youngest daughter of a Scottish retired admiral and MP emerged from obscurity in 1898 to become the publicly acknowledged mistress of the portly, fun-loving Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII. Agnes Keyser, daughter of a prominent member of the Stock exchange, defied social expectations by not marrying, instead becoming involved in hospital charity work. Her twelve-year relationship with the king was much less in the public eye, but was just as important.

Open Me Carefully

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 081950033X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Open Me Carefully by : Emily Dickinson

Download or read book Open Me Carefully written by Emily Dickinson and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th–century American poet’s uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend. For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson’s thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson’s life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson’s poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet’s life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive. Praise for Open Me Carefully “With spare commentary, Smith . . . and Hart . . . let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters’ genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page.” —Renee Tursi, The New York Times Book Review

All Passion Spent

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525433988
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Book Synopsis All Passion Spent by : Vita Sackville-West

Download or read book All Passion Spent written by Vita Sackville-West and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.