Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami (recommended books to read TXT) 📕

drunk

‘Chips’ The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, ed. Robert Rhodes James (Weidenfeld 1993)

I am curious to know

Winston Churchill to his mother, 22 January 1902, quoted in Randolph Churchill, Young Statesman, Winston Churchill, 1901–1914 (Minerva 1991)

My dear Mrs George

The Prince of Wales to Mrs Keppel, May 1901 (Royal Archive, Windsor)

a number of other

Edward VII: A Portrait

The Queen has taken

The Glitter and the Gold

the complete supremacy

8 April 1901, Lady Curzon’s India: Letters of a Vicereine

Dear Soveral

quoted in Uncle of Europe

I came to rely

Edwardian Daughter

one of whom

Edward VII and his Jewish Court

I hereby acknowledge

7 March 1901, (Cassel papers, Hartley Library, Southampton University)

Referring to our

5 March 1903, ibid

My dear Cassel

Edward VII to Ernest Cassel, September 1901. ibid

The drawing room

Lord Esher to his son Maurice, April 1908. Journals and Letters of Reginald Esher. Ed. Maurice Brett (Nicholson and Watson 1934–8)

Israel in force

July 1900, Lincolnshire papers Bodleian Library Oxford

I quite made up

The Diary of Sir Edward Hamilton, ed. Dudley Bahlman (University of Hull 1993)

one of a new breed

Edward VII and his Jewish Court

When she came

The Enigmatic Edwardian

The poorer classes

Ernest Cassel to Edward VII, 1902 (Cassel papers, Southampton)

You will have doubtless heard

Edward VII to Ernest Cassel, 1 June 1902 (Cassel papers, Southampton)

The party is like

Ernest Cassel to his daughter, 1906 (Cassel papers, Southampton)

The King is rather pleased

ibid, April 1902

a stout Teutonic

Edward VII and his Jewish Court

I have had

ibid

Levee dress

(Cassel papers, Southampton)

greatest wish

Recollections of Three Reigns

The King is perfectly

Lord Esher to his son Maurice, July 1905. Journals and Letters of Reginald Esher

She sits next to him

ibid

HM was in capital

Lincolnshire papers

wonder dully what relation

Violet to Vita (undated 1918)

SIX

Studded wardrobe-trunks

Edwardian Daughter

Out of a square

ibid

Sir Ernest was fervently

ibid

At Biarritz

Uncle of Europe

We are his servants

Janet Morgan, Edwina Mountbatten: A Life of Her Own (HarperCollins, 1992)

lovely little jewelled

Edwardian Daughter

Mama was waiting

Triple Violette

Mrs George Keppel

Uncle of Europe

I put on a frock

ibid

Before leaving

Asquith to Mrs Keppel, 9 May 1908 (John Phillips)

Monsieur Jean

Don’t Look Round

Every year

Violet to Vita, 16 September 1910

We used to come

Don’t Look Round

her tapering

ibid

in the category

Edwardian Daughter

When roused to anger

Don’t Look Round

Persuasion

unpublished note (Beinecke Library, Yale)

suspicious, introspective

Don’t Look Round

This book Mama

Edwardian Daughter

My first (and salutary)

Don’t Look Round

The great lost the power

ibid

of a sudden

ibid

to be dragged

Don’t Look Round

It seems to me

Portrait of a Marriage

SEVEN

One never loves

Violet Trefusis, Hunt the Slipper (Virago 1983)

which became more

Don’t Look Round

I who was the worst

Portrait of a Marriage

Vita belonged to Knole

Don’t Look Round

It was necessary

ibid

It is above all

Vita Sackville-West, Knole and the Sackvilles (Heinemann 1922)

But you require

Knole and the Sackvilles

Had you been a man

Violet to Vita

Violet is mine

Portrait of a Marriage

as floppy as

Vita to Harold, 19 May 1943 (Lilly Library)

There he stands

Vita to Harold, 8 September 1941 (Lilly Library)

intermittent yet

Don’t Look Round

In her too

ibid

All the fast

Victoria Sackville, unpublished diary

He made me sit

Vita Sackville-West, Pepita (Hogarth Press 1937)

He put me at

ibid

mais pourtant

ibid

I wonder whether

Victoria Sackville, unpublished diary

Baby very naughty

ibid

Everybody says

Victoria Sackville, Book of Reminiscences (Lilly Library)

the figure of

23 January 1927, The Diary of Virginia Woolf: volume 3 1925–30. Ed. Anne Olivier Bell (The Hogarth Press 1980)

L says that I talk

Victoria Sackville, unpublished diary

those lovely, lovely

Portrait of a Marriage

Often when I went

ibid

She loved me as a baby

Pepita

one moment

ibid

it has been rather

Portrait of a Marriage

I thought they would

quoted in Victoria Glendinning, Vita (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1983)

I think she touched

Pepita

annual, biennial

ibid

she possessed

ibid

Do you know

Violet to Vita, 7 May 1920

Genealogies

Vita

Mr Keppel is really

Vita’s diary, 4 April 1908 (Lilly Library)

It speaks highly

Don’t Look Round

If I’d read

Violet Trefusis, Broderie Anglaise (Paris 1935. English translation by Barbara Bray, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985)

stumbled out

Portrait of a Marriage

I can’t hear

ibid

How I loved you

Violet to Vita, August 1920

Darling, how dreadfully

ibid, 14 August 1920

EIGHT

full justice

Magnus, King Edward VII

Mrs Keppel and the affront

ibid

The King’s cold

Mrs Keppel to the Marquis de Soveral, quoted in Uncle of Europe

the matter you

Edward VII and his Jewish Court

I shall be sorry

Magnus, King Edward VII

Poor Alice

Ernest Cassel to his daughter, May 1910 (Cassel papers, Southampton)

looked as if

ibid, 6 May 1910

Yes I have heard

Uncle of Europe

I never did any harm

Lord Esher’s journal, 12 June 1910. Quoted in James Lees-Milne, The Enigmatic Edwardian (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986)

interest I gave

Edward VII and his Jewish Court

It was the fruit of a quite

ibid

Mrs Keppel had lied

quoted in James Lees-Milne, The Enigmatic Edwardian: The Life of Reginald 2nd Viscount Esher (Sidgwick & Jackson 1976)

We went up

Edwardian Daughter

Why does it matter

ibid

Today the King

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, My Diaries (Secker 1919)

regular sweep

ibid

surely one

Osbert Sitwell, Great Morning (Macmillan 1948)

My dear Lady Knollys

Uncle of Europe

No young lady’s

Don’t Look Round

I want you to come

Violet to Vita, 8 October 1910 (written in French)

you ask me pointblank

ibid

O my dears

Vita

wife of a gentleman

Violet to Vita, 12 December 1910

I didn’t think

Portrait of a Marriage

Your speech impressed

Violet to Vita, 31 October 1910 (written in French)

The chauffeur sounded

Edwardian Daughter

My dear Harold

Vita and Harold, 5 November 1910

For the first time

Violet to Vita, 12 December 1910 (written in French)

I hope terribly

ibid 12 December 1910

The parting with Mama

Edwardian Daughter

I remember admiring

Portrait of a Marriage

O Vita

Violet to Vita, undated 1911 (written in French)

I knew it then

Portrait of a Marriage

like the Babes

Don’t Look Round

I liked the two

Edwardian Daughter

No I am not angry

31 July 1911 (Beinecke Library, Yale)

A lady caught

Edwardian Daughter

In these spacious

ibid

Not only were the rooms

Great Morning

masses of beautiful

Edwardian Daughter

After a month

Don’t Look Round

NINE

exquisite beauties

Edwardian Daughter

their conversation

Vita Sackville-West, The Edwardians

The house was full

She was tall

Don’t Look Round

This