Editing Violet Trefusis (section)

==Career==
During the [[Second World War]] in London, Trefusis participated in the broadcasting of [[Free French Forces|"La France Libre"]], which earned her a [[Legion d'Honneur]] after the war; she was also made a Commander of the [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Sharpe |first=Henrietta |title=A solitary woman: a life of Violet Trefusis |year=1981 |publisher=Constable |isbn=978-0-09-464140-2}}</ref>

Trefusis received mixed reviews on her books. Some critics credited Trefusis with an "excellent gift of observation" and a "talent for mimicry and flair for decor in most of her books". These qualities were said to be evident in her novels written in English and in French.<ref>{{cite book |last=Commire |first=Anne |author-link=Anne Commire |title=Women in World History |publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |location=Farmington Hills, MI |edition=1st |year=2001 |page=558 |isbn=978-0-7876-4074-3}}</ref> Other critics stated that her books were not great literature, although they sold well and her readers enjoyed them.<ref name=scandalouslove/><ref name=Orlando>Brown, Susan, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, eds. VIOLET TREFUSIS entry: overview screen within ''Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present.'' Cambridge University Press online, 2006. http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=trefvi</ref>

She made many appearances as a pivotal character in other writers' fiction. [[Nancy Mitford]] based Lady Montdore, a character in her novel ''[[Love in a Cold Climate]]'', on Trefusis. She featured in [[Cyril Connolly]]'s ''[[The Rock Pool]]'', in [[Harold Acton]]'s ''The Soul's Gymnasium'' as Muriel, in several novels by Vita Sackville-West, and in Virginia Woolf's ''[[Orlando: A Biography]]'' as the ravishing "Princess Sasha".<ref name=holroyd238/><ref>Holroyd, Michael (2010).''The Laurie Lee Lecture: Cheltenham festival'', pp. 19–20.</ref>

Although her writings spanned much of the twentieth century, many were unpublished. [[Virago Press|Virago]], a publishing house devoted to recovering the forgotten work of women writers, set about compensating for this. They brought out two of her novels with introductions by [[Lorna Sage]] and [[Lisa St Aubin de Teran]], but were eventually defeated by [[copyright]] difficulties. In addition, Lorna Sage, Trefusis' great champion among British critics, died before she could assist in the publication of further works by Trefusis, as she planned.<ref>Holroyd 2011, {{page needed|date=October 2014}}</ref>