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

never go

Portrait of a Marriage

She calls it banishment

Vita to Harold, 14 February 1920 (Lilly Library)

I am simply dazed

Violet to Vita, 14 February 1920

Every day L telephones

Vita to Harold, 18 February 1920 (Lilly Library)

O my darling

Violet to Vita, 16 February 1920 (Beinecke Library)

You can’t seriously

Violet to Vita, 29 January 1920

THIRTEEN

Pat is a powerful

Violet to Vita, February 1920

he does nothing but

ibid, 16 February 1920

he yelled

ibid, 20 February 1920

I only called

Edwardian Daughter

‘My dear Lord’

ibid

I know that just

Denys Trefusis to Violet, 24 February 1920 (Beinecke Library)

I am afraid

Pat Dansey to Vita Sackville-West, 2 March 1920. Violet to Vita

I could not be

Violet to Vita, 9 March 1920

Darling, I saw

Pat Dansey to Violet, 15 March 1920. Violet to Vita

a debased crippled

Violet to Vita, 1 May 1920

I am singularly pure

ibid, 7 May 1920

Before I had always

Portrait of a Marriage

You have told me

Violet to Vita, 12 March 1920 (Beinecke Library)

My dear I worry

Pat Dansey to Vita, 8 May 1920 (Nigel Nicolson)

I saw the sort

Portrait of a Marriage

In the Middle

Violet to Vita, 8 May 1920

How can you expect

ibid, 19 March 1920

What a dreadful

ibid, 11 May 1920

Hate seeing her

Vita Sackville-West, unpublished diary, 22 April 1920 (Lilly Library)

I can’t bear

Violet to Vita, 22 May 1920

I am twenty-six

ibid, 5 June 1920

O Mitya, you can

ibid, 7 July 1920

I fear the scandal

Mrs Keppel to Violet, undated (Beinecke Library)

I could not live

Violet to Vita, 21 July 1920

Jean is a nice

Harold to Vita, 17 January 1919 (Lilly Library)

Can you arrange

ibid, 19 July 1920

Having written it

Portrait of a Marriage

Darling it’s true

Violet to Vita, 24 August 1920

three dozen nightgowns

Edwardian Daughter

She has been gardening

Violet to Vita, August 1920 (Beinecke Library)

You haunt this place

Violet to Vita, August 1920

She fusses

ibid, October 1920

She is diabolical

ibid

If I can’t be

ibid, 19 September 1920

This time last year

ibid, 17 September 1920

I can only feel

ibid, 2 October 1920

I love nothing

ibid, 14 October 1920

It was like two

Portrait of a Marriage

she seems absolutely

Book of Reminiscences

FOURTEEN

On Saturday we shall

Harold to Vita, 8 February 1921. Vita and Harold.

M’elle never leaves

Violet to Vita, 14 March 1921

Another letter

Violet to Vita, 9 March 1921

My poor mother

ibid, 18 March 1921

And what should I

ibid

If only you would

ibid, 29 March 1921

It is possible

Portrait of a Marriage

blazing blue eyes

Dictionary of National Biography, 1921 entry by Vita

Tell Dottie she is

Harold to Vita, March 1921, quoted in Victoria Glendinning, Vita (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983)

the most corrupt

Violet to Vita, 1 May 1921

It seems so odd

ibid

Men chinday now completely

ibid, 27 May 1921

everything to me

ibid, 19 July 1921

I would gladly do

Pat Dansey to Vita, 15 August 1921 (Nigel Nicolson)

Her mother refuses

ibid, 1 September 1921

Beyond that I have

ibid, 10 November 1921

I do wish, Vita

ibid, 23 December 1921

I only feel

Harold to Vita, 8 January 1926. Vita and Harold

I do not remember

Raymond Mortimer to Vita, 29 December 1925 (Lilly Library)

It is only very

I curse myself

Vita to Harold, 8 December 1922. Vita and Harold

And with it all

ibid, 16 November 1922

FIFTEEN

How black is my future

Violet to Pat Dansey, March 1921 (Beinecke Library)

Denys would frequently

Don’t Look Round

I have to go and see

Pat Dansey to Vita, 1 August 1922 (Nigel Nicolson)

I do hate

ibid, 10 March 1922

I will go as

Violet to Pat Dansey, 15 March 1922. Violet to Vita

Well! I’m damned

Pat Dansey to Vita, March 1922 (Nigel Nicolson)

Darling if V

ibid, 6 May 1922

Surely from old

ibid, 17 August 1922

I was fearful

ibid, 8 April 1922

Apparently her mother

ibid, 4 December 1922

I loathe being

ibid, 17 July 1923

Would it be easier

ibid, 30 August 1923

Three perfect days

ibid, 11 November 1923

I centralized on

ibid, 24 November 1923

I would sooner die

ibid, 3 August 1924

I do apologise

ibid, undated 1924

I am going to tell

ibid, 26 June 1924

in a very amorous

ibid, 27 May 1926

She never bought

Lord Northumberland to Vita Sackville-West, 3 February 1924 (Lilly Library)

I do not want

Vita to Harold, 12 February 1923 (Lilly Library)

I surrendered

Don’t Look Round

Every night

The Hook in the Heart, unpublished manuscript (Beinecke Library)

How could she make

ibid

Her love of love

ibid

Disowned by

ibid

People quailed

Don’t Look Round

Part Three: Chacun Sa Tour

SIXTEEN

a cold beauty

quoted in Michael de Cossart, Food of Love: Princesse Edmond de Polignac and her Salon (Hamish Hamilton, 1978)

the hideous Hotel

Horizon Review of Literature, 1941–50

constantly heard

ibid

Together they would

Don’t Look Round

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,