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ON August 5, the Marquess of Cholmondeley plays host at Houghton Hall to an unusual theatrical event, commemorating the keyboard player Violet Gordon Woodhouse, and starring Dolly Wells.

First to arrive is Violet Gordon Woodhouse, the early 20th-century harpsichordist whose salon drew Diaghilev, Picasso and endless Sitwells like moths around a candle. Violet is what my grandmother ...

Visiting his friend, harpsichordist Violet Gordon Woodhouse, at Nether Lypiatt in 1945, Osbert Sitwell describes the house as being ?the colour of guinea-fowls? plumage, standing at the top of a steep ...