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

Acton, Channon; Dansey; Lady Cecilia McKenna; Nicolson; Osbert Sitwell; Sonia; Violet; Virginia Woolf

personality:

acquisitiveness; in anger; charm; discretion; graciousness; happiness; hauteur; importance of social code; joie de vivre; kindness; munificence; persuasiveness; poise; self-confidence; sexual power; straightforwardness; wit

and Violet:

small daughter; portrait; in Paris; and Violet’s appearance; Violet’s ‘wonderful season’; wants Violet to marry; photograph; Violet’s affair with Vita; announces Violet’s engagement; Violet’s poetry; rows; gives ball for Violet’s impending marriage; clothes for Violet’s wedding; wedding present for Violet; Violet’s trousseau; rents house for Violet; Violet’s plea for a separation; buys Stonewall Cottage for; Denys’s wish for annulment; will not speak to Violet; Denys’s account of her will; Violet’s ‘momentous interview’ with; writes to Violet; will agree to annulment; at Duntreath; at Clingendaal; Violet discusses her feelings for Vita; does not reply to Violet; decides Violet must live abroad; her coldness to Violet; and Violet’s re-launched marriage; and Violet’s relationship with Polignac; caricature in Broderie Anglaise; letters of devotion; and Violet’s novels; and Violet’s quasi-suitors; presents for Violet; finances Violet’s move to East Coker; presented with Violet’s bill

Keppel, Hon. George, personality, and Violet; appearance; money; family history; and Sonia; employed by Lipton; shooting parties at Quidenham; and death of the King; stays at home; reunited with the girls; monthly visits to Munich; Grosvenor Street; Violet’s coming-out ball; organizes hospitality at Clingendaal; club; military service; and AK; Armistice celebrations; Violet’s wedding; wedding presents for Violet; asks Macready for help; in Amiens; Dansey on; Nile cruise; takes photographs; motor car; Aids to Memory; in USA; ill; death; his obituary

Keppel, Sir Henry

Keppel, Sonia, on AK; birth; Violet and; and her father; and Cassel; and King Edward; spring wardrobe; holidays in Biarritz; jewelled Easter eggs; at Duntreath; at Crichel; and AK; and Montgomery; death of woman in Ceylon; to Munich; ill and homesick; Grosvenor Street; on AK’s guests; writer; on Grenfell; World War I; sixteenth birthday party; asthma; Violet’s bridesmaid; and Cubitt; Lady Ashcombe and; engagement; and Denys; trousseau; to Clingendaal; wedding presents; pregnant; and Violet’s possessions; at Ombrellino; ball for Rosalind; AK stays with; marriage problems; birth of granddaughter; divorce; Ombrellino; rooted in Keppel family drama

Keppel, Violet

girlhood:

paternity; Duntreath Castle; birth; letters to Vita; and Keppel; and King Edward; and Sonia; spring wardrobe; holidays in Biarritz; derides Biarritz; and Caesar; Christmas at Crichel; personality; life in Portman Square; French governess; in Paris; and Lady Sackville; and death of the King; does not enjoy Ceylon; in Munich; Grosvenor Street

coming out and after:

coming-out ball; dinner parties; engagement to Wellesley; in Ravello; contempt for hypocrisy of marriage; eschews Vita’s wedding; at Clingendaal; and Grenfell; World War I; Osbert Sitwell and; Slade School of Art; and Pat Dansey; appearance; personality; and Denys before marriage; Harold hates; attitude to adultery; asks Harold for help; Armistice celebrations; writes to Harold; on Trefusis family; panic at prospect of marriage; wedding; wedding presents

as Mrs Trefusis:

Paris; crosses Channel alone; ostracized; gambling; health problems; returns to Grosvenor Street; at Sonning-on-Thames; Sonia and fiancé call; despair; and Lady Sackville; socially isolated; Denys’s mother turns her away; sees a lawyer; disposal of her possessions; writes to Vita through Dansey; at Clingendaal; and Dansey; deteriorating appearance; returns to London; her personal tragedy; and Princesse de Polignac; and de Meyers; Nile cruise; Ombrellino; La Prisonnière; in USA; St Loup; Challenge; and Orlando; calls on Woolfs, Quennell on; state of mind; novelist; Jullian on her novels; quasi-suitors; Eiffel Tower costume ball; ageing; outbreak of World War II; escape from France; life at East Coker; journalism and broadcasting; life in wartime; personality; appearance; in France, hampered by money restrictions; and Sonia; furniture; fabrications; eccentric behaviour; quasi-fiancés; and James Pope-Hennessy; servants; brittle in body and mind; death; her will; epitaph

and AK:

on AK; the child and her mother; AK stays with; and Violet’s appearance; AK wants her to marry; AK announces the engagement; fears AK’s wrath; rows; proposed annulment; sees AK in Monte Carlo; ‘momentous interview’; feelings for AK; at Duntreath; at Clingendaal; AK’s dictates; AK’s coldness; present for AK; discusses her feelings with AK; summer 1946; money matters; AK’s importance to

and Denys Trefusis:

honeymoon; tells of her relationship with Vita; married life; wants a separation; tells of elopement plan; between three perils, sex with Denys; anguish for both; motoring in France; rows; at Dower House; ‘momentous interview’ with AK; marriage worsens; in Paris; on Denys; and Denys’s last illness

and Vita Sackville-West:

doge’s ring; first meeting; falls in love; and Knole; education; declares her love; at Duntreath; jewels for Vita; in San Remo; Vita on; at Knole, on Vita; present for Vita; kisses; jealousy; Vita’s engagement; during the War; friendly meetings; her love for Vita; sexual intercourse; holidays in Cornwall; mutual infatuation; Rebellion, Eve and Julian; Paris; Riviera; Vita reneges; together during the week; urges Vita to leave Harold; Julian and Eve in France; plan the future; meets Vita and Denys in Calais; scenes in Amiens and Paris; denies having sex with Denys; Challenge, on marriage; four days at Dower House; two months in south of France; Vita’s lack of involvement; last direct letter to Vita; writes to Vita through Dansey; brief meeting at Berry’s dinner party; death of Lord Sackville; in Violet’s roman à clef; Vita sends affectionate letters; Vita renounces relationship; they discuss writing their story; asks to stay at Sissinghurst; wants Vita to inherit St Loup; Vita at St Loup; Vita’s relationship with Woolf

works:

Broderie Anglaise; Don’t Look Round; Echo; The Hook in the Heart; Hunt the Slipper; Pirates at Play; Prelude to Misadventure; Sortie de Secours; Tandem

Knoblock, Edward

Knole, its importance to Vita; Vita’s mother; Violet and AK at; Vita’s wedding; World War I; Violet at; Woolf at; Vita at; in Violet’s roman à clef; Vita’s burial

Knollys, Charlotte

Knollys, Francis, later Viscount Knollys

Knollys, Sir William

La Rochefoucauld, Comte Stanislas de

Laking, Sir Francis

Langtry, Edward

Langtry, Emilie Charlotte, called Lillie

Lansdowne, 5th Marquess of

Lasteyrie, Comte Louis de

Lavery, Sir John

Lely, Sir Peter, portraits of Quidenham

lesbianism

Lipton, Sir Thomas

Londonderry, Marchioness of

Louise, Princess

Lutyens, Sir Edwin

McKenna, Lady Cecilia, née Keppel

McKenna, David

Manners, Lady Diana, see Cooper, Lady Diana

Marlborough, Duchess of

Marlborough, 9th Duke of

Mary, Queen

Massigli, René

Matheson, Hilda

Melba, Dame Nellie

Mensdorff, Count

Meyer, Baron Adolf de

Meyer, Olga de

Millais, Sir