A Book of Secrets

by Michael Holroyd

  Masucci, Tiziana, Violet’s Rhapsody (Rome, Mephite, 2008)

  Masucci, Tiziana, D. H. Lawrence: A Trespasser in Ravello (Rome, Mephite, 2008)

  Mitford, Nancy, The Pursuit of Love (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1949)

  Morrell, Lady Ottoline, The Early Memoirs, ed. Robert Gathorne-Hardy (London, Faber & Faber, 1963)

  Mosley, Diana, A Life of Contrasts (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1977)

  Nicolson, Adam, Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (London, HarperCollins, 2008)

  Nicolson, Harold, Some People (London, Constable, 1927)

  Nicolson, Nigel, Portrait of a Marriage (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973)

  Nicolson, Nigel (ed.), Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, 1910 – 1962 (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1992)

  Nicolson, Nigel, Long Life: Memoirs (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997)

  Pearson, Hesketh, The Pilgrim Daughters (London, William Heinemann, 1961)

  Pullar, Philippa, Frank Harris (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975)

  Quennell, Peter, Customs and Characters (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982)

  Rose, Norman, Harold Nicolson (London, Jonathan Cape, 2005)

  Sackville-West, Vita, The Edwardians (London, The Hogarth Press, 1960)

  Sackville-West, Vita, All Passion Spent (London, The Hogarth Press, 1965)

  Sackville-West, Vita, Challenge (London, Collins, 1974)

  Sage, Lorna, Moments of Truth: Twelve Twentieth-Century Women Writers (London, Fourth Estate, 2001)

  Saul, Daphne, Bird of Paradise: José Dale Lace (Johannesburg, Parktown and Westcliff Heritage Trust, 1993)

  Sebba, Anne, Jennie Churchill: Winston’s Mother (London, John Murray, 2007)

  Sharpe, Henrietta, A Solitary Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis (London, Constable, 1981)

  Sitwell, Osbert, Great Morning (London, Macmillan, 1948)

  Souhami, Diana, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter (London, HarperCollins, 1996)

  Squires, Michael, D. H. Lawrence and Frieda: A Portrait of Love and Loyalty (London, André Deutsch, 2008)

  St Aubyn, Giles, Edward VII: Prince and King (London, Collins, 1979)

  Stein, Gertrude, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (London, John Lane, 1933)

  Strachey, Lytton, Eminent Victorians (London, Chatto & Windus, 1918)

  Strouse, Jean, Morgan: American Financier (New York, Random House, 1999)

  Trefusis, Violet, Sortie de Secours (Paris, Editions Argo, 1929)

  Trefusis, Violet, Tandem (London, Heinemann, 1933)

  Trefusis, Violet, Hunt the Slipper (London, Heinemann, 1937)

  Trefusis, Violet, Les Causes Perdues (Paris, Editions Gallimard, 1941)

  Trefusis, Violet, Prelude to Misadventure (London, Hutchinson, 1942)

  Trefusis, Violet, ‘The Carillon’ (Horizon, June 1943)

  Trefusis, Violet, ‘Triptych’ (Horizon, November 1943)

  Trefusis, Violet, Pirates at Play (London, Michael Joseph, 1950)

  Trefusis, Violet, Don’t Look Round (London, Hutchinson, 1952)

  Trefusis, Violet, and Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, From Dusk to Dawn (London, Tom Stacey, 1972)

  Trefusis, Violet, Echo, trans. Siân Miles (London, Methuen, 1988)

  Trefusis, Violet, Broderie Anglaise, trans. Barbara Bray (London, Methuen, 1986)

  Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian, Memoirs of an Armchair (London, Hutchinson, 1960)

  Wajsbrot, Cécile, Violet Trefusis (Paris, Mercure de France, 1989)

  Webb, Gerry, Fairfax of York (York, Maxiprint, 2001)

  Woolf, Virginia, Orlando (London, The Hogarth Press, 1928)

  Woolf, Virginia, The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume III 1925 – 1930, eds. Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie (London, The Hogarth Press, 1980)

  Woolf, Virginia, The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1923 – 1928; 1932 – 1935; 1936 – 1941, eds. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann (London, The Hogarth Press, 1977, 1979, 1980)

  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages of your eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  Acton, Harold

  Nancy Mitford

  The Soul’s Gymnasium

  Alsop, Mary; her biography of Lady Sackville

  Amiot, Alice

  Angier, Carole

  Archdale, Mary; marries Ralph Grimthorpe, 98; divorces him

  Asquith, Cynthia; her description of Désiré Defauw

  Balfour, Arthur

  Beckett, Christopher (fourth Lord Grimthorpe)

  Beckett, Edmund (first Lord Grimthorpe); dying without marmalade

  Beckett, Ernest (second Lord Grimthorpe); description of Rodin; engagement to Eve; buys the Villa Cimbrone; born; at Eton and Cambridge; as ‘London’s greatest lover’; in Rome; meets Luie there; and marries her in London; with her in New York; elected MP for Whitby; his political speeches; meets José in Rome; their affaire; their son; meets Alice Keppel; their daughter Violet; travels round the world; re-enters politics, ; raised to the peerage; sells his houses and leaves Beckett’s Bank; photographed there; contribution to Eve’s Book; makes his Will; dies of tuberculosis; letters to The Times; letters to Winston Churchill; letters to Rodin; letters to his mother; letters to Eve

  Beckett, Gervase (Ernest’s brother); takes Ernest’s place as MP for Whitby; his mistress and son

  Beckett, Helen (Ernest’s mother) letters to Ernest

  Beckett, Lucy (Ernest’s wife) see Lee

  Beckett, Lucy Katherine (‘Lucille’, Ernest’s daughter); born; marries Count Otto Czernin; and La Rondinaia; letters to Ernest; letters to Eve,

  Beckett, [Helen] Muriel (Ernest’s younger daughter); born; dies of tuberculosis

  Beckett, Ralph (third Lord Grimthorpe); born

  Beckett, Rupert (Ernest’s brother)

  Beckett, Violet (Ernest’s sister); illness and death

  Beckett, William (Ernest’s father, also known as Denison); changes his name; a mysterious journey; ‘cut to pieces’; funeral

  Berenson, Bernard

  Bernadocki [Bernadotti], Madame; her Pygmalion-like beauty

  Berners, Gerald (fourteenth Baron Berners, previously Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson)

  Betjeman, John

  Beuret, Rose

  Blanche, Jacques-Emile

  Bohn, Margaret

  Brett, Dorothy

  Brewster, Achsah; description of the Villa Cimbrone; and of Florence Green

  Brewster, Earl

  Brink, José; acts in A Woman of No Importance; meets and marries Joseph Dale Lace; in love with Ernest; gives birth to a son; marries Joseph Dale again; meets Edward VII

  Brink, Josephine Cornelia

  Browning, Elizabeth, Barrett

  Butler, Ruth; her biography of Rodin

  Callil, Carmen

  Cheruy, René

  Churchill, Lord Randolph; forms the Fourth Party; resigns; his influence on Ernest; death

  Churchill, Winston

  Cimbrone, the Villa

  Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

  Colston-Baynes, Doreen

  Connolly, Cyril

  The Rock Pool

  The Unquiet Grave (Palinurus)

  Coolidge, Susan; What Katy Did and

  What Katy Did Next

  Cooper, Lady Diana; gives Eve Her Book; gives Violet money and a party in Paris

  Cooper, Duff (first Viscount Norwich); sees Violet naked

  Crisp, Quentin; as Queen Elizabeth I

  Crossart, Michael de

  Dale Lace, José; see Brink, José

  Dale Lace, Lancelot Ernest Cecil (Ernest Beckett’s son); born; M.C. R.I.P.

  Dansey, Pat; described in Don’t Look Round; as Nancy in Tandem

  Defauw, Désiré

  Defauw, John

  Defauw, John junior

  Dodsworth, Charles

 
Drabble, Margaret, see Holroyd, Margaret

  Duntreath Castle

  Eden, Anthony

  Eden, Beatrice

  Eden, William; letters to Eve

  Edward VII (Prince of Wales)

  Enthoven, Gabriel

  Fairfax, Bryan (Eve’s younger brother); his bequest to Eve; helps Eve to sell Rodin’s bust

  Fairfax, Eve (Constance); childhood; her cricket; presented at court; Rodin’s bust of her; Her Book; her letters to Rodin; bankrupt; her engagement to Ernest; in Yorkshire Pageant Plays; as Francie in Violet Trefusis’s Pirates at Play; her son; her hundredth birthday; at the Retreat; death; The Times obituary; love letters from admirers

  Fairfax, Evelyn Selina (née Milner, Eve’s mother), brilliant horsewoman; dislike of her daughter; in bed with a piece of string; death

  Fairfax, Guy (Eve’s elder brother)

  Fairfax, Thomas Ferdinand (Eve’s father); life and death

  Forster, E. M.

  ‘The Story of a Panic’

  Gladstone, William Ewart

  Glendinning, Victoria

  Green, Florence

  Greene Graham; reviews Tandem

  Grimthorpe, see Beckett

  Grosvenor, Rosamund; as Fru Thyregod in Challenge

  Grunfeld, Frederic V.; biography of Rodin

  Hare, Marion J.

  Harris, Frank; ‘pregnant’ at the Villa Cimbrone

  Hart-Davis, Rupert

  Hart-Davis, Sybil

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel

  The Marble Fawn

  Holroyd, Margaret

  Holroyd, Michael; meets Catherine Till; finds Eve’s Book; a dream; travels to Italy; at the Villa Cimbrone; meets Gore Vidal; meets Joanna Mourdant Vickers ; research, health and safety ; with Tiziana Masucci; throws up his hands

  Basil Street Blues

  Lytton Strachey

  Mosaic

  Hughes, Edward; his portrait of Luie and her two daughters

  Jacob, Max

  James, Henry

  James, Serena

  Johannesburg Art Gallery,

  Jong, Erica; at La Rondinaia

  José, see Brink

  Jullian, Philippe

  Kahan, Sylvia

  Keppel, Alice; her relationship with Ernest; gives birth to Violet; her affaire with the Prince of Wales; as Romola Cheyne in The Edwardians; her influence on Violet; leaves Britain for Italy; an ‘old sad Mor’; death in Florence; given a new life in Don’t Look Round

  Keppel, George

  Keppel, Sonia (later Mrs Roland Cubitt); as Marguerite in Tandem; separated from her husband

  Keppel, Violet, see Trefusis, Violet

  Keynes, Maynard John

  Kirkstall Grange

  Knole

  Lace, Joseph John (aka Dale Lace); meets and marries José; with and without her; sues for divorce; marries her again

  Lamont-Brown, Raymond

  Landry, Judith

  Lawrence, D. H.; at Cimbrone; letters to Koteliansky; letters to Richard Aldington

  Lady Chatterley’s Lover

  Lee, Lucy Tracy (‘Luie’, Ernest Beckett’s wife); her childhood and adolescence in the United States; appearance; travels to France and England; to Europe and North Africa; ‘La Belle Americaine’; meets Ernest in Rome; marries him in London; honeymoon on the Isle of Wight; has two daughters; miscarriage; pregnant; gives birth to a son and dies; letters to Ernest

  Lees-Milne, Alvilde

  Lees-Milne, James

  Lehmann, Rosamond; Invitation to the Waltz

  Lycett Green, Angela (née Courage, later Grimthorpe)

  Lycett Green, David

  Lycett Green, Rupert

  Manners, Lady Diana, see Cooper

  Marsh, Edward

  Marvell, Andrew

  Masucci, Tiziana; makes her appearance at Ravello; her exhibition at Cimbrone; in London at Charleston; her commitment to Violet; on Pirates at Play

  Maugham, Somerset

  McVicker, Henry

  Mitford, Nancy

  Love in a Cold Climate

  Mitterrand, François

  Molyneux, Edward

  Montenaeken, Leon

  Moore, George

  Mordaunt and Milner families

  Morgan, J.

  Mortimer, Penelope

  Mortimer, Raymond

  Mourdant (Vickers), Joanna

  Mourdant, John Francis

  Naples

  Nicolson, Adam

  Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

  Nicolson, Harold; letters to Vita; death

  Some People

  Nicolson, Nigel

  Portrait of a Marriage (with Vita Sackville-West)

  Long Life

  Nun Appleton

  O’Farrell, Suzanne; her brilliance

  Painter, George

  Parnell, Charles, Stewart

  Pétain, Philippe

  Phillips, John

  Phillips, Florence

  Polignac, Winnaretta, Princesse de (née Singer); meets Violet; described in Don’t Look Round; relationship with Violet; letter to Violet

  Potter, Sally

  Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)

  Proust, Marcel

  Quennell, Peter

  Customs and Characters

  Rammarione, Gabriella

  Ravello

  Reynaud, Paul

  Robinson, Hercules

  Robinson, Lady (Nea); her advice to José

  Rodin, Auguste; busts of Eve Fairfax; and of Lady Sackville; Saint Jean-Baptiste prêchant; The Thinker; correspondence with Eve Fairfax

  Rose, Norman

  Rubinstein, Arthur

  Ruiz, Valerio

  Rushdie, Salman

  Sackville, Victoria, Lady; the Rodin bust of her; on Challenge; in Don’t Look Round; as Lord Shorne’s mother in Broderie Anglaise; relationship with Vita

  Sackville-West, Vita; in Don’t Look Round, relationship with her mother; with Rosamund Grosvenor, ; meets Violet; their love; as Lord Shorne in Broderie Anglaise; last meeting with Violet; death; letters to Virginia Woolf; letters to Harold Nicolson

  The Edwardians

  Challenge

  Sage, Lorna

  Salisbury, Lord (Robert Cecil)

  Saul, Daphne

  Schouvaloff, Alexander; his legendary shoes and hair

  Scott, Geoffrey

  Senhouse, Roger

  Shakespeare, Nicholas

  Sharpe, Henrietta

  Shaw, Bernard

  Singh, Raja Ranbir

  Sitwell, Edith

  Sitwell, George

  Sitwell, Osbert

  Smith, Clara Nelson

  Souhami, Diana

  Mrs Keppel and her Daughter

  Sparks, Alexander

  Sparks, Serena

  St Aubin de Teran, Lisa

  Story, Waldo

  Story, William Wetmore

  Strachey, Lytton; in Italy; letters to Ottoline Morrell

  Eminent Victorians

  Elizabeth and Essex

  Sullivan, Arthur

  Swinburne, Algernon; his ‘Dolores’

  Theroux, Paul; reviews Challenge

  Tertis, Lionel

  Till, Catherine; at Pond Farm; at the Villa Cimbrone; early years; driving in Italy; marriages; travels abroad and travails at home

  Till, Patrick

  Times Literary Supplement

  Times, The

  Tirpitz, Admiral Alfred von; all at sea

  Tree, Herbert Beerbohm

  Trefusis, Denys; engaged to Violet; marries her; their honeymoon; and their difficulties; introduces Violet to the Princess de Polignac; in Russia; death; in Don’t Look Round

  Trefusis, Violet (née Keppel); born; admirers; as Sasha in Orlando; an ‘honoured witch’; meets Vita; their love; writes ‘Battledore and Shuttlecock’; and The Hook in the Heart; her love of Paris; with the Princess de Polignac; at Saint Loup; as Anne Lindell in Broderie Anglaise; in England during the war; writes ‘The Carillon’; and ‘Triptych’;
reaction to her mother’s death; postscriptum years; as Geraldine in The Rock Pool; as Muriel in The Soul’s Gymnasium; in Harold Acton’s Nancy Mitford; as Lady Montdore in Love in a Cold Climate; death; letter to Cyril Connolly; letters to her mother; letters to Vita; letters to Pat Dansey

  Sortie de Secours

  Echo

  Don’t Look Round

  Tandem

  Broderie Anglaise

  Hunt the Slipper

  Les Causes Perdues

  Prelude to Misadventure

  Pirates at Play

  Memoirs of an Armchair (with Philippe Jullian)

  From Dusk to Dawn (with Frank Ashton-Gwatkin)

  Vanderbilt, William Henry; ‘the richest man in the world’

  Vickers, Hugo; visits Eve at the Retreat

  Victoria and Albert Museum

  Vidal, Gore

  Von Tirpitz, see Tirpitz