Violet Trefusis : a biography, including correspondence with Vita Sackville-West / Philippe Jullian and John Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jullian, Philippe.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Phillips, John (John Nova)

Standardized Title:

Other woman

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trefusis, Violet, 1894-1972.

Trefusis, Violet.

Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962.

Sackville-West, V.

Trefusis, Violet, 1894-1972--Correspondence.

Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962--Correspondence.

Authors, English--20th century--Correspondence.

Authors, English.

Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, English.

Novelists, French--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, French.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Biographies.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 256 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Harvest/HBJ edition.

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.

Summary:

A remarkable woman in her own right and a highly gifted writer, Violet Trefusis is especially remembered for her scandalous affair with Vita Sackville-West, first disclosed in Portrait of a Marriage. After their abortive flight from their husbands in 1920, Vita returned to England and her writing, and Violet became an expatriate, immersing herself in international society and the world of art. This intriguing biography traces her life from a romantic childhood-when her mother, Alice Keppel, was the mistress of King Edward VII-to her death in Florence in 1972. A supplement of correspondence between Violet and Vita Sackville-West provides further insights into their relationship. The letters from Violet reveal, as nowhere else in her writing, the depth of her feelings for Vita. Those from Vita, written years later, attest that their love for one another never really ended.

Notes:

Reprint. Previously published: The other woman. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1976.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0156935554

OCLC:

11261680