Van wie was Violet Trefusis?

Violet Trefusis (Londen, 6 juni 1894 - nabij Florence, 29 februari 1972), geboren als Violet Keppel, was een Engels schrijfster en "socialite", lid van de beau monde. Als schrijfster heeft ze weinig erkenning gekregen; ze wordt voornamelijk herinnerd door haar gepassioneerde relatie met de meer gefêteerde schrijfster Vita Sackville-West. Sackville-West verwierf ook grote bekendheid door samen met haar echtgenoot Harold Nicolson de tuinen van hun kasteel Sissinghurst in het graafschap Kent te ontwerpen en vorm te geven.

Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.

Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf.

She wrote a column in The Observer from 1946 to 1961 and is remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst in Kent, created with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson.