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

John Everett

Mitford, Nancy

Moiselle, Violet’s French governess, becomes Violet’s governess; and the King; with Violet in Paris; with Violet in Florence; death of the King; to Ceylon; at Dambatenne; to Munich; critical of AK; ‘a sort of gaoler’

Molyneux, Edward

Montgomery, Watty

Mordaunt, Sir Charles

Mordaunt, Harriet

Morley, Arthur

Mortimer, Raymond

Nannie, and death of the King; to Ceylon; at Dambatenne; critical of AK; Grosvenor Street; Sonia’s wedding

Nicolson, Benedict, birth; his godmother; Armistice celebrations; presents from Dansey; Vita writes about Violet; and Carritt; marriage

Nicolson, Hon. Gwen

Nicolson, Hon. Harold, later Sir Harold, doge’s ring; and Keppel; Vita meets; invitation from Vita; Vita on; unofficially engaged; Vita and; on Violet; history; personality; and Lady Sackville; military exemption; venereal infection; Vita’s and Violet’s holiday in Cornwall; and Violet; his solution; and Vita’s affair with Violet; and Vita’s and Violet’s Paris trip; homosexual affairs; Christmas 1918; Paris Peace Conference; writes to Vita; reparation of marriage; no sex between Vita and; to Amiens; scenes in Amiens and Paris between Vita and Violet; cocker spaniel for Vita; does not want Violet at Long Barn; buys a statue; and Vita’s affair with Dorothy Wellesley; holiday with Wellesleys; his marriage; and Raymond Mortimer; Pat Dansey and; stays with Scotts in Florence; Orlando; money

Nicolson, Nigel

Norfolk, 15th Duke of

Northumberland, 8th Duke of

Nouailles, Anna de

Ostrorog, Comte Jean

Paget, Lady Florence

Palewski, Gaston

Paris, Violet in; Prince of Wales in; Violet and Vita in; liberation of; Violet returns to

Parker-Bowles, Camilla

Pepita

Phillips, John

Polignac, Armande de

Polignac, Prince Edmond de

Polignac, Winnaretta, Princesse de, and Violet; personality and appearance; marriages; Palazzo Polignac, Venice; patron of the arts; love of music; and Denys; lifestyle; Nile cruise; at Ombrellino; La Prisonniere; in USA; La Tour de St Loup; at East Coker; dines with Harold

Poniatowski, Prince Josef

Ponsonby, Sir Frederick

Ponsonby, Ria

Pope-Hennessy, James

Portland, 6th Duke of

Poulenc, Jean

Proust, Marcel

Pucci, Orazio, Marquis

Quidenham Park

Ravel, Maurice

Reynaud, Paul

Richards, Betty

Robert III, King of Scotland

Rolfe, Mr AK’s butler

Rosenburg, Adolphus

Rubens, Olive

Rutland, Duchess of

Sackville, 2nd Baron

Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset

Sackville-West, Charles

Sackville-West, Lionel, later 3rd Baron Sackville; marries; and his wife; humiliation; and Olive Rubens; Christmas 1918; writes to Vita; death

Sackville-West, Lionel the elder

Sackville-West, Victoria, later Lady Sackville, excludes AK; at coronation; Violet on; history; early married life; Vita’s birth; Seery and; and Vita; capricious with money; eccentric behaviour; AK and; eschews Vita’s wedding; court case; extravagant expenditure; menopause; World War I; Sackville and; unhappy; and Violet; Armistice; attitude to homosexuals; and Vita’s affair with Violet; sends for Harold; on Denys and Harold to Amiens; Challenge; on Violet; Denys and; Vita’s unorthodox marriage; concern for grandsons; and Vita’s friendship with Dorothy Wellesley; and Dansey; and Geoffrey Scott; and Woolf; death of her husband; caricatured in Broderie Anglaise

ackville-West, Hon. Vita, at coronation; and AK; Knole; birth; and Seery; and her mother; in Florence; and Rosamund Grosvenor; pleasures; appearance; attitude to society; affair with Dorothy Wellesley; wedding; and Ben; houses; and Denys; personality; Lady Carnock and; buys a statue; and Dorothy Wellesley; Italian holiday with Wellesleys; Pat Dansey and; homosexuality; attitude to her lovers; in love with Geoffrey Scott; Morning Post shares; and Virginia Woolf; death of her father; Orlando; Sissinghurst; and Carritt, averse to parties, dresses, social occasions, death

and Violet Keppel:

in Florence; doge’s ring; first meeting; visits to Portman Square; Violet declares her love; at Duntreath; Violet kisses her; warns Violet to be true; declines her invitation; on Violet; at Knole; Violet’s jealousy; present for Violet; Violet at Long Barn; sex; love affair; and Violet’s probable marriage; Julian and Eve; at Grosvenor Street; ‘Julian clothes’; autobiographical ‘confession’; in France; consents to elope with Violet; Violet’s wedding; tells Violet she has reneged; together during the week; emotional dilemma; they plan to leave England; agree to elope; extracts herself from responsibility for Violet; in Amiens; considers Violet has betrayed her; questions Violet and Denys about sex; sexual jealousy; wants her to come to England; in Avignon; loses Violet’s ring; at the Dower House; reluctantly with Violet; their love ‘debased and corrupt’; telegram for Violet’s birthday; and Vita’s affair with Dansey; refuses to see Violet; brief meeting at Berry’s dinner party; St Loup; affectionate letters; renounces relationship; they discuss writing their story; at Sissinghurst; reluctance to have Violet to stay; Ombrellino

and Harold Nicolson:

first meeting; her invitation to; describes him to Violet; unofficially engaged; marriage; his venereal infection; writes to him; love letters to Harold; in Paris; reparation of marriage; cocker spaniel from Harold; he summons her home; her affection for him; reassures him; confides homosexual affairs to him

works:

Challenge; The Dragon in Shallow Waters; The Edwardians; Heritage; Orchard and Vineyard

Salisbury, 4th Marquess of

Sandringham

Scey-Montbéliard, Prince Louis de

Schiff, Jacob

Scott, Geoffrey

Scott, Sir John Murray (Seery), and Victoria Sackville-West; wealth; his Paris apartment; death; bequest

Scott, Sybil

Sert, José Maria

Shand, Annabel

Shand, Camilla see also Parker-Bowles, Camilla

Simpson, Wallis, later Duchess of Windsor

Sinclair, Sir Archibald

Singer, Paris

Sitwell, Edith

Sitwell, Sir George

Sitwell, Sir Osbert, on AK’s Grosvenor Street house; adores AK; and Violet; at Knebworth

Somerset, Lord Arthur

Soveral, Marquis Luis de

Stavordale, Lord, later 6th Earl of Ilchester

Stephenson, Henry Frederick

Strang, William

Sturt, Gerard

Terré, Helen

Torrigiani, Marchesa

Trefusis, Beatrice

Trefusis, Betty

Trefusis, Denys Robert, family background; war service; writes to Violet; appearance; suggests talking to Vita; proposes; in Paris; AK and; promises never to displease Violet; personality; interest in Russia; ill; letter to Vita; agreement with Violet over sex; warns Violet; Military Cross; Violet tells him of her relationship with Vita; honeymoon; wants a separation; in sympathy with suicide; indifferent to Violet’s movements; and Vita; sex with Violet; returns to London; to Amiens; anguish for Violet and; motoring in France with Violet; terms for divorce; rows with Violet; asks Violet for trust; discharge from army; Violet’s attitude to; talks of suicide; threatens to dissolve marriage; Sonia and fiancé call; marriage worsens; at Clingendaal; leaves Violet; applies for legal separation; drops legal proceedings; with Violet in Paris; affair with Russian model; and Princesse de Polignac; interest in music; at Ombrellino; condemns Bolshevism; shooting; La Prisonnière; in USA; revisits Belgian battlefields; death; Sonia and

Trefusis, Kerr

Trefusis, Mitty

Vertova, Luisa

Vicky, see Frederick of Prussia, Crown Princess

Victoria, Queen, and Prince of Wales; power; and Albert; death of Albert; and Princess Alexandra; and Prince of Wales’s wedding; and Princess of Wales; ‘invisible’

Victoria, Princess

Vincent, Lady Helen

Voigt,