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Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter

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by Diana Souhami


  It represented

  ibid

  I am always - being

  Violet to Vita, undated 1920 (Beinecke Library)

  Sometimes Mrs Keppel

  quoted in Philippe Jullian & John Phillips, Violet Trefusus: Life and Letters (Hamish Hamilton 1976)

  She went round

  Duff Cooper to Diana Cooper, 6 February 1927. Quoted in A Durable Fire: the letters of Duff and Diana Cooper, ed. Artemis Cooper (Collins 1983)

  In love there is

  quoted in Charlotte Wolff, Hindsight: An Autobiography. (Quartet 1980)

  a mediocre little

  Don’t Look Round

  self-love in all

  Violet Trefusis, Sortie de Secours (Editions Argo, 1929)

  In London she had

  Harold Acton, More Memoirs of an Aesthete (Methuen 1970)

  quality, beauty

  Don’t Look Round

  A fine figure

  More Memoirs of an Aesthete

  Winston was so happy

  Clementine Churchill to Violet, 10 July 1952 (John Phillips)

  Oh my God

  Vita to Harold, 2 December 1924 (Lilly Library)

  You are always so opty

  Harold to Vita, 2 December 1924 (Lilly Library)

  disastrous European

  Denys Trefusis, The Stones of Emptiness. Unpublished manuscript (Phyllida Ellis)

  Above all I have

  ibid

  For 1½ roubles

  ibid

  Lord bless me

  Virginia Woolf to Vita, 7 February 1927. A Change of Perspective: The Letters of Virginia Woolf Volume III: 1923–1928. Ed. Nigel Nicolson (The Hogarth Press 1977)

  He went there

  Don’t Look Round

  he continued to go

  ibid

  I can only suppose

  ibid

  put her head round

  Phyllida Ellis to author August 1994

  By now you doubtless

  Violet to Cyril Connolly, 20 September 1929. Quoted in Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters

  SEVENTEEN

  one steep Utrillo-like

  Don’t Look Round

  The subtlety of Challenge

  Vita Sackville-West, Challenge. Foreword by Nigel Nicolson (Collins 1974)

  In the end

  Picturegoer, May 1927

  I ache with the sense

  Violet to Vita, 18 March 1921

  so enchantingly

  Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography (The Hogarth Press 1928)

  was a terrible failure

  Vita to Harold, 17 August 1926. Vita and Harold

  soul friendship

  ibid, 26 December 1925

  She lives too much

  ibid, 9 November 1926

  Probably I would

  ibid, 17 August 1926

  It is incredible

  Vita to Virginia Woolf, 21 January 1926. Quoted in The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Ed. Louise De Salvo & Mitchell A. Leaska (Hutchinson 1984)

  she shines

  The Diary of Virginia Woolf: volume 3 1925–30.

  opulence and freedom

  ibid, 4 July 1927

  Vita stalking

  ibid, 23 January 1927

  Do you know

  Vita to Virginia 11 June 1927. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

  You see I was reading

  Virginia to Vita, 14 June 1927. A Change of Perspective

  was like a cloak

  Vita to Virginia, 11 October 1928. The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

  the longest

  Portrait of a Marriage

  I know what a flawless

  Violet to Vita, January 1928. Quoted in Victoria Glendinning, Vita

  I kept thinking

  Vita to Harold, 17 May 1928 (Lilly Library)

  I must try

  ibid, 10 October 1928

  Would he never manage

  Broderie Anglaise

  consists of nothing

  ibid

  Her exclusive

  ibid

  fainting with pleasure

  ibid

  why make her into

  ibid

  a brilliant, volatile

  ibid

  Were you or weren’t you

  ibid

  Who d’you think

  Virginia to Vita, 8 November 1932. The Sickle Side of the Moon: the Letters of Virginia Woolf Volume V, 1932–35, ed. Nigel Nicolson (The Hogarth Press 1979)

  No, I’m not

  ibid, 7 January 1933

  Not with a quarrel

  The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 4 1931–35, 11 March 1935

  EIGHTEEN

  The tallest feather

  Don’t Look Round

  the relationship between

  Peter Quennell, Customs and Characters (Little Brown & Co. 1982)

  still, you’ll be able

  Violet Trefusis, Hunt the Slipper (Virago 1983)

  but she cannot

  21 April 1934, ‘Chips’ The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon

  If I speak

  Don’t Look Round

  Little love

  Violet to Mrs Keppel, undated (John Phillips)

  During the evening

  Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters

  She had none

  Hunt the Slipper

  I wish we could have

  ibid

  I will not pretend

  Don’t Look Round

  He called on me

  ibid

  Lord B. is marrying

  Virginia to Vita, 22 November 1933. The Sickle Side of the Moon

  Happiness for me

  Sortie de Secours

  I wonder how much

  Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters

  My mother chaffed

  Don’t Look Round

  No wonder I fell

  ibid

  une ame damnée

  Vita

  People arrived

  Don’t Look Round

  I had poise

  ibid

  We were dancing

  Lady Cecilia McKenna to author, September 1994

  I am here till

  Alice Keppel to Violet, 29 August 1939 (John Phillips)

  Harry I consider

  ibid, 29 August 1939

  I must know

  ibid, 19 September 1939

  Would I be happy

  Vita to Harold, 8 June 1939 (Lilly Library)

  gave one long gasp

  Harold to Vita, 28 September 1939 (Lilly Library)

  Papa’s temper

  Alice Keppel to Violet, 11 April 1939 (John Phillips)

  Never shall I forget

  Don’t Look Round

  This hotel

  Alice Keppel to Violet, 20 April 1939 (John Phillips)

  To hear Alice

  23 September 1942, ‘Chips’ The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon

  NINETEEN

  People were very

  Don’t Look Round

  Curious how war

  Vita to Violet, 12 September 1940

  The very sound

  ibid, 31 August 1940

  I mind for you

  ibid, 14 October 1940

  wings of the past

  ibid, 15 December 1940

  It upsets me

  ibid, 16 March 1941

  I do feel

  ibid

  She will amuse you

  Vita to Ben Nicolson, July 1941 (Lilly Library)

  I hope Ben won’t

  Vita to Harold, July 1941 (Lilly Library)

  Two of the happiest

  Vita to Ben Nicolson, May 1948 (Lilly Library)

  He is bound

  Vita to Harold, September 1948 (Lilly Library)

  If I were

  Harold to David Carritt, 13 January 1949 (Lilly Library)

  Poor Mor

  Alice Keppel to Violet June 1942 (John Philli
ps)

  A large clumsy

  quoted in James Lees-Milne, Prophesying Peace (Chatto & Windus, 1977)

  I wish Violet

  Harold to Vita, 8 February 1944 (Lilly Library)

  To describe her as

  Vita to Harold, 8–9 February 1944 (Lilly Library)

  Violet’s maid unpacked

  25 September 1945, Marie Belloc Lowndes Diaries and Letters 1911–47 Ed. Susan Lowndes (Chatto & Windus 1971)

  She is rather

  Prophesying Peace

  the blue letter

  Don’t Look Round

  She looked magnificent

  19 November 1943, ‘Chips’ The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon

  Oh God Oh God

  Vita to Harold, 21 June 1945 (Lilly Library)

  cherished bibelots

  Don’t Look Round

  Except I live on capital

  Alice Keppel to Violet, 23 March 1946 (John Phillips)

  suddenly Jacques

  Nancy Mitford to Diana Mosley, 25 May 1946. Love from Nancy: the Letters of Nancy Mitford. Ed. Charlotte Mosley (Hodder & Stoughton 1993)

  now you are domiciled

  Alice Keppel to Violet, 1 June 1946 (John Phillips)

  England is perfectly

  ibid, 9 June 1946

  Paris was lovely

  Alice Keppel to her husband George, 12 August 1946 (John Phillips)

  I have always thought

  ibid, 27 August 1946 (John Phillips)

  because she says

  Nancy Mitford to Gerald Berners, 11 November 1946. Love from Nancy: the Letters of Nancy Mitford

  It is nearly

  Alice Keppel to Violet, 3 January 1947 (John Phillips)

  she will even

  Don’t Look Round

  We were the inferior

  unpublished fragment (Beinecke Library)

  TWENTY

  Admiring as we do

  The Times, 27 November 1947

  I wish Violet

  Vita to Harold, 19 April 1949 (Lilly Library)

  Darling I am terribly

  Sonia Cubitt to Violet, 6 (John Phillips)

  February 1949

  Whichever we decide

  ibid

  I’m afraid

  ibid, 30 July 1949

  We had a curious conversation

  Violet Trefusis to John Phillips, September 1966

  Dear Mrs Trefusis

  Lord Learney to Violet, 24 November 1959

  It reminds me of BM

  Vita to Harold, March 1949 (Lilly Library)

  It is her Cranbrook

  ibid

  my love of St Loup

  Vita to Violet, 4 October 1949

  Oh you sent me a book

  ibid, 1 October 1950

  I do hope that

  Betty Richards to Violet, 18 February 1949 (John Phillips)

  At a dinner party

  14 June 1950, diary of James Pope-Hennessy. A Lonely Business: A Self-portrait of James Pope-Hennessy. Ed. Peter Quennell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1981)

  When she rose

  Susan Mary Alsop, To Marietta from Paris (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1976)

  As she can write

  Harold Acton, Nancy Mitford: A Memoir (Hamish Hamilton 1975)

  much as I love

  Betty Richards to Violet, July 1951 (John Phillips)

  the ruin of

  Nancy Mitford: A Memoir

  One can almost

  ibid

  The magnificent

  Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters

  Do you know Mitya

  Violet to Vita, 7 May 1920

  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  Alice Keppel’s name is abbreviated to AK

  Acton, Sir Harold

  Albemarle, 1st Earl of

  Albemarle, 3rd Earl of

  Albemarle, Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of

  Albemarle, 7th Earl of

  Albert, Prince Consort

  Albert Victor, Prince, Duke of Clarence

  Alexandra, Queen, personality; appearance; wedding

  as Princess of Wales:

  ‘pin money’; social life; birth of her children; rheumatic fever; disabilities; and Prince of Wales; Aylesford scandal; recuperation

  as Queen:

  and AK; Fabergé pieces; charm; visits relatives; Mediterranean cruise; and the King’s last illness; and Cassel; the King’s death

  Alice, Violet’s servant

  Alington, Henry Sturt, 1st Baron

  Alington, Humphrey Sturt, 2nd Baron

  Alington, Lady

  Alsop, Susan Mary

  Ashcombe, 2nd Baron

  Ashcombe, Lady

  Ashley, Edwina

  Ashley, Mary

  Ashton, Dorothy

  Asquith, Herbert Henry later 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith

  Asquith, Margot

  Aylesford, Countess of

  Aylesford, 7th Earl of

  Baker, Sir Randolph

  Baker, Valentine

  Barney, Natalie

  Baume, Countess de la

  Beach, Sylvia

  Beckett, William, later 2nd Baron Grimthorpe

  Belloc Lowndes, Marie

  Berenson, Bernard

  Beresford, Lady Charles

  Beresford, Lord Charles, later Baron Beresford

  Berners, 14th Baron

  Bernhardt, Sarah

  Berry, Walter

  Biarritz, the King and Keppels holiday in

  Birch, Henry

  Birkenhead, F.E. Smith, 1st Earl of

  Blanche, Jacques-Emile

  Blandford, Marquess of, later 8th Duke of Marlborough

  Blériot, Louis

  Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, on the King

  Bourdet, Denise

  Bourdet, Edouard, La Prisonnière

  Brienen, Daisy, Baroness de

  Brock, Sir Thomas

  Brooke, Lord, later 5th Earl of Warwick

  Brooks, Romaine

  Buckingham Palace, AK at; Lillie Langtry at; the King’s last illness

  Bulberg, Baroness Moura

  Burne-Jones, Sir Edward

  Caesar, the King’s Norfolk terrier

  Calvatore, Marchesse de

  Campbell, Lady Joan

  Campbell, Mary

  Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry

  Caracciolo, Duchess di

  Carnock, Lady

  Carriés, Jean

  Carrington, 3rd Baron

  Carritt, David

  Carson, Sir Edward, later 1st Baron Carson

  Casati, Marchesa

  Cassel, Amalia Maud

  Cassel, Edwina, later Countess Mountbatten

  Cassel, Sir Ernest; the King’s financial adviser; appearance; shirts, the King and; and anti-Semitism; history; private life; Brooke House; honours; AK’s host in Biarritz; presents for Keppel girls; and his daughter; and AK; Knollys returns banknotes to; bust of the King; retirement; guests in Bournemouth; at Violet’s wedding; wedding present for Sonia

 

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