Trefusis, Violet, née Keppel (1894-1972), writer and socialite
£580
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Original typescript of "The Hook in the Heart", an unpublished novel set in Spain and France in the 1930's, 179pp., 4to, c.1930; never published modern photocopy of the Diary of Violet Keppel, aged 11, 20pp., dated May 4-31 1905; 2pp. typescript of a work by Violet Trefusis, with covering typed compliments slip to Hon. Mrs Nicolson; Photograph by Alice Hughes of Alice Keppel and Violet Trefusis, 1900, 14 x 8.5cm, in a contemporary silver mounted wood photograph frame; Photograph of Violet Trefusis as a young girl, c.1903, framed and glazed; photographs of Violet entertaining at her home the Villa dell'Ombrellino, celebrating the twinning of Florence and Edinburgh in 1966, various photographs of Violet and La Tour, St. Loup de Naud; and a quantity of later printed photograhps of Alice Keppel, King Edward VII (a quantity)
Footnote
Note: A fascinating archive relating to Violet Trefusis, daughter of Alice Keppel, mistress of King Edward VII. Violet's long and fraught love affair with Vita Sackville-West appeared thinly disguised in Viriginia Woolf's novel Orlando. For further information see Violet Trefusis, a biography, by Philippe Jullian and John Phillips.