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They lived in the Clifton family seat at Lytham Hall, Lancashire, Kylemore House in Connemara, Ireland, and then at Kildalton Castle on the Scottish island of Islay. WH Auden praised the book in a review that appeared in the Criterion. In 1935 Nevill Coghill nominated her for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but the prize was ultimately not awarded that year.
Her other books include Vision of Peru and Islands of Queen Wilhelmina, later reissued as Islands of Indonesia.
She died at Lytham Hall in 1961. John and Violet"s son was the dilettante film producer Harry Talbot de Vere Clifton, who squandered much of the family"s remaining wealth.