Violet Trefusis
Writer, Author
1894 – 1972
Who was Violet Trefusis?
Violet Trefusis was an English writer and socialite. She is chiefly remembered for her lesbian affair with the poet Vita Sackville-West. She also wrote novels and many non-fiction works, both in English and French. The affair was featured in novels by both parties, and also in Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography, as well as in many letters and memoirs of the period, roughly 1912–1922. Many are preserved at Yale University Library. Trefusis was an inspiration to many writers' fiction and was a pivotal character in their novels including Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate as "Lady Montdore" and in Harold Acton's The Soul's Gymnasium as "Muriel", a fictional portrait of her.
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- Born
- Jun 6, 1894
London - Also known as
- Violet Keppel Trefusis
- Parents
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- London
- Died
- Feb 29, 1972
Florence
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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