Violet

About the show

At Nether Lypiatt Manor in Gloucestershire, Jessica Douglas-Home reads her great-aunt Violet’s papers and recreates the Edwardian world of Violet, husband Gordon, admirers Max Labouchere, Bill Barrington and Dennis Tollemache, and composer Ethel Smyth. The characters praise Violet and dine together. In Act II, Max is reported killed in the First World War trenches. Jessica mourns the loss of an innocent world and decides to sell the house.