Trefusis

Mr. Holroyd discovers a fresh way of reading Trefusis, and he describes the impact of the novels on his own sensibility.

The Biographers' Biographer Carl Rollyson 2011

What is striking about this assessment is that it is both a professional and personal one—placing Trefusis's work in a literary tradition but also in the narrative of the biographer's life.

The Biographers' Biographer Carl Rollyson 2011

Victoria Glendinning, nearly as devoted to biography as Mr. Holroyd, wrote extensively about Trefusis in her life of Sackville-West, and she suggests that he might find an opening by looking at Trefusis's novels.

The Biographers' Biographer Carl Rollyson 2011

After suggesting that Trefusis's Gothic miniature "Echo" 1931 is akin to the Melville of "Typee" and the "Discours" of Rousseau, he adds: "Ideally this is a novel for younger readers: but I first read it in my seventies and it has imprinted itself on my imagination as if I had known it all my life."

The Biographers' Biographer Carl Rollyson 2011

The research leads Mr. Holroyd to Beckett's illegitimate daughter, the novelist Violet Trefusis, best known for her amour with Vita Sackville-West, which Nigel Nicolson wrote about in "Portrait of a Marriage" 1973.

The Biographers' Biographer Carl Rollyson 2011

He put the change in Kurt down to the kidnapping, but then admitted it had started when Jane Trefusis, a woman physicist, joined the lab.

Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010

His letters home from the voyage describe none of the eccentric passengers he would later evoke in his memoir, Going Solo 1986: the nudist athletes Major Griffiths and his wife, for example, or the rupophobic Miss Trefusis.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

Very highly thought of by Dean Gulrajani and a few other luminaries, though his nose is a little out of joint since Jane Trefusis joined the lab.

Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010

The two of them were the daughters of an Englishman, Edward Eaton and a Chinese woman, Grace “Lotus Blossom” Trefusis.

Tigers & Strawberries » The Chinese Cookbook Project II: This Little Book 2005

Assembled around him were all the servants: fabulous Sarah, his Jamaican nurse, arrogantly naked except for blue bathing shorts; Lewin and Mr.. Lewin, the butler and cook; Reggie, Bob, and Cat, the deckhands; and Mr. Trefusis, the first mate.

The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004