In Popular Culture
She was close to many of the leading artists of her day, including, amongst others; Ethel Smyth, Siegfried Sassoon, Poldowski (Lady Dean Paul) and George Bernard Shaw. Welsh tramp poet W. H. Davies often visited her harpsichiord recitals and also dined, with the Sitwells, at Nether Lypiatt.
- Sir Osbert Sitwell mentions her often in his autobiography.
- Radclyffe Hall, the lesbian novelist, dedicated a book of erotic poems to her.
- Roger Scruton wrote the libretto and music for an opera, "Violet", based on her life. It was premiered in 2005 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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