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
