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'''Lady Violet Powell''' (13 March 1912 – 12 January 2002), born '''Violet Georgiana Pakenham''', third daughter of [[Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford]] and [[Mary Pakenham, Countess of Longford|Lady Mary Julia Child Villiers]] (daughter of [[Victor Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey]]), was a writer and critic. She was educated at [[St Margaret's School, Bushey]]. |
'''Lady Violet Powell''' (13 March 1912 – 12 January 2002), born '''Violet Georgiana Pakenham''', third daughter of [[Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford]] and [[Mary Pakenham, Countess of Longford|Lady Mary Julia Child Villiers]] (daughter of [[Victor Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey]]), was a writer and critic. She was educated at [[St Margaret's School, Bushey]]. |
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She married [[Anthony Powell]] (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) on 1 December 1934 at All Saints Anglican Church, Ennismore Gardens, [[Knightsbridge]]; they had two children, Tristram and John.<ref name=telegraph>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/01/15/db1501.xml Obituary] in [[The Daily Telegraph]], 15 January 2002</ref> |
She married [[Anthony Powell]] (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) on 1 December 1934 at All Saints Anglican Church, [[Ennismore Gardens]], [[Knightsbridge]]; they had two children, Tristram and John.<ref name=telegraph>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/01/15/db1501.xml Obituary] in [[The Daily Telegraph]], 15 January 2002</ref> |
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A member of a highly literary family, Lady Violet was herself a distinguished memoirist and biographer. Her ''The Life of a Provincial Lady'' (1988), on the life of [[E. M. Delafield]], has been called by one critic "one of the best literary biographies of a British writer in the twentieth century". Those who knew the couple well believed that Lady Violet made significant contributions to the richness, depth and polish of her husband's work.<ref>Nicholas Birns, ''Understanding Anthony Powell'' (2004), p. 7</ref> |
A member of a highly literary family, Lady Violet was herself a distinguished memoirist and biographer. Her ''The Life of a Provincial Lady'' (1988), on the life of [[E. M. Delafield]], has been called by one critic "one of the best literary biographies of a British writer in the twentieth century". Those who knew the couple well believed that Lady Violet made significant contributions to the richness, depth and polish of her husband's work.<ref>Nicholas Birns, ''Understanding Anthony Powell'' (2004), p. 7</ref> |
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Lady Violet Powell (13 March 1912 – 12 January 2002), born Violet Georgiana Pakenham, third daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford and Lady Mary Julia Child Villiers (daughter of Victor Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey), was a writer and critic. She was educated at St Margaret's School, Bushey.
She married Anthony Powell (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) on 1 December 1934 at All Saints Anglican Church, Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge; they had two children, Tristram and John.[1]
A member of a highly literary family, Lady Violet was herself a distinguished memoirist and biographer. Her The Life of a Provincial Lady (1988), on the life of E. M. Delafield, has been called by one critic "one of the best literary biographies of a British writer in the twentieth century". Those who knew the couple well believed that Lady Violet made significant contributions to the richness, depth and polish of her husband's work.[2]
She is generally taken to be the model for the character of Isobel Tolland in her husband's novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time [citation needed].
Books
Some of her books are:
- The Album of Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time
- A Compton-Burnett Compendium
- A Jane Austen Compendium: The Six Major Novels
- The Constant Novelist: A Study of Margaret Kennedy, 1896–1967
- Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India
- The Irish Cousins: The Books and Background of Somerville and Ross
- The Life of a Provincial Lady: A Study of E.M. Delafield and Her Works
- Margaret, Countess of Jersey: A Biography
- A Substantial Ghost: The Literary Adventures of Maude ffoulkes
Autobiography
- Five Out of Six: An Autobiography (a reference to her birth order amongst her siblings)
- Within the Family Circle: An Autobiography
- The Departure Platform: An Autobiography
References
- ^ Obituary in The Daily Telegraph, 15 January 2002
- ^ Nicholas Birns, Understanding Anthony Powell (2004), p. 7
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