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Powell, Violet
Andere Namen
Powell, Lady Violet
Pakenham, Violet Georgiana (birth name)
Geburtstag
1912-03-13
Todestag
2002-01-12
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
UK
Geburtsort
London, England, UK
Wohnorte
Pakenham Hall, County Westmeath, Ireland
Tullynally Castle, County Westmeath, Ireland
The Chantry, Frome, Somerset, England
London, England, UK
Ausbildung
St. Margaret's School, Bushey, England, UK
London School of Economics
Berufe
Literary critic
Biographer
journalist
memoirist
Beziehungen
Powell, Anthony (husband)
Pakenham, Edward (brother)
Pakenham, Frank, 7th Earl of Longford (brother)
Longford, Christine (sister-in-law)
Longford, Elizabeth (sister-in-law)
Fraser, Antonia (niece) (Zeige alle 12)
Billington, Rachel (niece)
Kazantzis, Judith (niece)
Pakenham, Thomas Francis Dermot, 8th Earl of Longford (nephew)
Dunsany, Lord (uncle by marriage)
Clive, Mary (sister)
Lamb, Lady Pansy (sister)
Kurzbiographie
Lady Violet Georgiana Pakenham was the youngest child of Brigadier-General Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, who was killed in World War I when she was a small child, and his wife Lady Mary Child-Villiers. Five of the 6 siblings became in the family became published authors. In London and at Pakenham Hall, their Irish home, they held parties for friends such as John Betjeman, Lord David Cecil, and Evelyn Waugh. Lady Violet was the first to receive a formal education. She attended St. Margaret's School and the London School of Economics. She worked as a journalist at the London Evening Standard with her sister Lady Mary Clive, and throughout her life continued to write reviews for national newspapers. In 1934, she married Anthony Powell, the novelist, with whom she had two children. In 1952, they moved to The Chantry, a Regency country house near Frome in Somerset, where Lady Violet could ride, hunt, play polo, and entertain fellow writers and friends. She became a distinguished biographer and memoirist. The first volume of her autobiography was Five Out of Six (1960), about her unusual childhood. She went on to publish biographies of Maude ffoulkes, the Victorian ghostwriter (A Substantial Ghost, 1967), the novelists Flora Annie Steel (1981), Margaret Kennedy (1983), and E.M. Delafield (1988). She also wrote a 1978 biography of her maternal grandmother, Margaret Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey. She put together a compendium on Ivy Compton-Burnett in 1973 and on Jane Austen in 1993. Lady Violet and her husband supported and encouraged each other's work. In 1987, they collaborated more formally on the pictorial Album of Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time, which Lady Violet edited.

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What a special addition to the library. Powell's wife, Lady Violet, compiled this "album" in the 1980s, a time of great interest in Powell's magisterial 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time. Lady Violet combines art, photography, advertising and cartoons from throughout modern history to capture the world of her husband's magnum opus. Along the way, we revisit the stories and characters from the novels, in a beautifully compiled collection.

Far from necessary, but a sumptuous grace note to the series, nevertheless.… (mehr)
 
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therebelprince | Oct 24, 2023 |
Although not long, this book is a thorough walk through EM Delafield's not over-eventful life and many works, most of which are never read today. Unfortunately, the biographer, Violet Powell, was a dull writer (her Jane Austen Compendium turns gold into lead). This makes the Delafield book heavier going than it ought to be. She also contrives to insert various quotations from her husband Anthony's better known works, usually irrelevantly. The section on Delafield's trip to the USSR is a bit better than the rest.
Nonetheless, if you are interested in Delafield, this is the only biography around to read.
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ponsonby | Oct 1, 2023 |
Discussion of each novel in order of publication. Powell was a personal friend of Compton-Burnett in her later years. Similar to the study by Robert lLiddell but more complete.
 
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almigwin | Sep 22, 2016 |

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13
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3.8
Rezensionen
3
ISBNs
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