Lady Violet Powell

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Lady Violet Powell (March 13, 1912 - January 12, 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 married Anthony Powell (December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000) on December 1, 1934 at All Saints Anglican Church, Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge; they had two children, Tristram and John.

Lady Violet Powell 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]}.

[edit] 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

[edit] Autobiography

1. Five Out of Six: An Autobiography (a reference to her birth order amongst her siblings)
2. Within the Family Circle: An Autobiography
3. The Departure Platform: An Autobiography

[edit] References

• Obituary in The Telegraph