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Lady Violet Powell
Lady Violet and Anthony Powell on their wedding day in 1934.
Lady Violet and Anthony Powell on their wedding day in 1934.
BornLady Violet Georgiana Pakenham
13 March 1912
Died12 January 2002(2002-01-12) (aged 89)
OccupationWriter, critic
GenreMemoir, biography
Spouse
Anthony Powell
(m. 1934; died 2000)
Children2, including Tristram Powell
Parents
  • Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford
  • Lady Mary Child-Villiers
Relatives
  • Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford (brother)
  • Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (brother)
  • Lady Pansy Lamb (sister)
  • Lady Mary Clive (sister)
  • Victor Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey (maternal grandfather)

Lady Violet Georgiana Powell (née Pakenham; 13 March 1912 – 12 January 2002) was a British writer and critic. Her husband was the author Anthony Powell.

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Lady Violet Powell

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Lady Violet Georgiana Powell (née Pakenham; 13 March 1912 – 12 January 2002) was a British writer and critic. Her husband was the author Anthony Powell...

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Tristram Powell

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Writer and Falling. Tristram Powell was born in Oxford, the elder son of the novelist Anthony Powell and Lady Violet Powell (née Pakenham). His godfather...

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Anthony Powell

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1934, he married Lady Violet Pakenham. In 1952, they moved to The Chantry, a country home in Whatley, west of Frome, Somerset. Powell was appointed a Commander...

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Anthony Powell Society

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The Society's formation was actively welcomed by his late widow, Lady Violet Powell, and continues to receive the support and encouragement of his family...

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Ferdinand Mount

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maternal aunts were the writers Lady Mary Clive, Lady Pansy Lamb and Lady Violet Powell, the wife of author Anthony Powell. Sir Ferdinand and his wife, Julia...

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Lady Pansy Lamb

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sisters, Violet, Mary and Julia. In 1922 she was a debutante. Pansy Pakenham and her siblings had few friends outside their immediate family, which Lady Mary...

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Agents and Patients

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Powell's evolution of the style and technique he will employ in A Dance to the Music of Time. It is dedicated to Violet Georgiana, Lady Violet Powell...

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1988 in literature

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Nash – Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch Lady Violet Powell – The Life of a Provincial Lady: A Study of E. M. Delafield and Her Works Philip Roth...

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2002 in literature

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Chamber of Secrets The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers January 12 – Lady Violet Powell, British critic and biographer (born 1912) January 17 – Camilo José...

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Cathryn Harrison

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Line; a 1989 episode of Hannay, opposite Robert Powell; and a 1977 Australian film called Blue Fire Lady. She also appeared as Major Tom Cadman's wife in...

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Lord Edward Cecil

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Edward Cecil as his Chief Staff Officer. They sailed on 8 July, Cecil taking Violet with him. When they landed at Cape Town, Cecil went to contractors Julius...

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Ursula Jeans

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Ethel Standish Cavalcade (1933) – Fanny Bridges On Thin Ice (1933) – Lady Violet I Lived with You (1933) – Gladys Wallis Friday the Thirteenth (1933)...

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Lady Augusta Gordon

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Lady Augusta Gordon (née FitzClarence; 17 November 1803 – 8 December 1865) was a British noblewoman. Born the fourth illegitimate daughter of William IV...

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List of jazz tunes

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Straus, 1950) (Oh,) Lady Be Good Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron, 1948) Lady of the Evening (Irving Berlin, 1923) Lady Sings The Blues The Lady Is a Tramp (Richard...

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Violet Markham

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Violet Rosa Markham CH (October 1872 – 2 February 1959) was a writer, social reformer, campaigner against women's suffrage and administrator. She grew...

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Flora Annie Steel

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Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire on 12 April 1929. Her biographers include Violet Powell and Daya Patwardhan. Flora was interested in relating to all classes...

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A Dance to the Music of Time

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the Music of Time is a 12-volume roman-fleuve by English writer Anthony Powell, published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim. The story is an often...

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Marian Marsh

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(born Violet Ethelred Krauth; October 17, 1913 – November 9, 2006) was a Trinidad-born American film actress and later an environmentalist. Violet Ethelred...

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Helena Bonham Carter

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grandparents were British Liberal politicians Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter and Lady Violet Bonham Carter. Helena is descended on her father's side from John Bonham...

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Maggie Smith

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Quartet (2012), and The Lady in the Van (2015). Smith received newfound attention and international fame for her role as Violet Crawley in the British...

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Joan Blondell

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Berkeley production of Gold Diggers of 1933, in which she co-starred with Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, became an anthem for the frustrations of unemployed people...

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XYZZY Awards

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2006: The Elysium Enigma by Eric Eve 2007: Lost Pig by Admiral Jota 2008: Violet by Jeremy Freese 2009: Blue Lacuna by Aaron A. Reed 2010: Aotearoa by Matt...

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Malice Aforethought

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in 2005. It too has been shown on Mystery! in 2005. Violet Powell The Life of a Provincial Lady p101 "Malice Aforethought (2005)". BFI. Archived from...

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