Please welcome Cora Harrison to Books for Company!
Cora written the recently released Debutantes as well as a collection of other books.
Cora has written a character profile for Violet, one of the main characters in Debutantes.
Thank you Cora!
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Character Profile : Violet
Violet Derrington was born in India in January 1905 and so she is eighteen in ‘The Debutantes’. When she was a baby her family were well-off; her mother was an heiress and her father was soon to succeed to the title of Earl of Derrington. However, her mother’s fortune was squandered on a useless diamond mine and, although Mary Derrington continued to have children, no son was born. When Violet was eleven years old, her mother died and, since the earl’s only brother, Robert, had been killed in the Boer War sixteen years earlier, the house and estate would now go to a very distant and much disliked cousin.
The book is told through Daisy’s eyes, but in a way, it is Violet who is the main character and it’s Violet’s fortunes and her hunt for a suitable husband who will keep her in the comfort and luxury that she dimly remembers, which forms the core of the book. She dismisses the idea of Justin, although she senses that he is attracted to her, as Justin is a younger son and will have no fortune, other than what he can earn as a newly-qualified lawyer.
Violet is an extraordinarily beautiful girl with huge eyes whose colour caused her mother to give her that name. She had a perfect, Grecian nose, creamy-white skin, and her lovely eyes were fringed with long black eyelashes. Her hair was like a shimmering black curtain. With her looks she expects to make a good marriage to a very rich and titled man.
She is also a talented dressmaker with a great instinct for what will suit her and her sisters and the ability to turn the most unpromising of old-fashioned clothes into bang-up-to-date, stylish dresses for herself and three sisters.
She can come across as a little selfish but her sisters excuse that in her as they feel that the family poverty lies more heavily on her than on any of the other girls.
The book is told through Daisy’s eyes, but in a way, it is Violet who is the main character and it’s Violet’s fortunes and her hunt for a suitable husband who will keep her in the comfort and luxury that she dimly remembers, which forms the core of the book. She dismisses the idea of Justin, although she senses that he is attracted to her, as Justin is a younger son and will have no fortune, other than what he can earn as a newly-qualified lawyer.
Violet is an extraordinarily beautiful girl with huge eyes whose colour caused her mother to give her that name. She had a perfect, Grecian nose, creamy-white skin, and her lovely eyes were fringed with long black eyelashes. Her hair was like a shimmering black curtain. With her looks she expects to make a good marriage to a very rich and titled man.
She is also a talented dressmaker with a great instinct for what will suit her and her sisters and the ability to turn the most unpromising of old-fashioned clothes into bang-up-to-date, stylish dresses for herself and three sisters.
She can come across as a little selfish but her sisters excuse that in her as they feel that the family poverty lies more heavily on her than on any of the other girls.
Favourite occupation: Reading fashion magazines and going to the cinema.
Favourite sport: Drag hunting where the hounds follow a trail of aniseed and the riders follow the hounds. Great fun, rushing through woods, jumping over hedges and splashing through rivers until eventually the hounds find the bag filled with strong-smelling aniseed and sometimes a few treats.
Favourite colour: blue
Favourite choice for marriage: Prince George, son of King George V
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