Violet Trefusis
Violet Trefusis was an English socialite and author. She is chiefly remembered for her lengthy affair with the writer Vita Sackville-West that both women continued after their respective marriages. It was featured in novels by both parties; in Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography; and in many letters and memoirs of the period roughly from 1912 to 1922.
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Trending topics shown first"Across my life only one word will be written: "waste" - waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise."
"You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination."
"The following evening John left with Lady Shorne for the south of France, without so much as a word to me. Alexa felt as if she were hearing that fateful cliche for the first time. "Without so much as…"
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