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

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 Phillips)

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

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