Lady Violet Georgiana Powell (née Pakenham; 13 March 1912 – 12 January 2002) was a British writer and critic.

[2] Those who knew the couple well believed that Lady Violet made significant contributions to the richness, depth and polish of her husband's work.

[2] She also wrote a biography of the English novelist Flora Annie Steel.

[3] Anthony Powell's novel, Agents and Patients, is dedicated to Lady Violet.

[4] She is generally taken to be the model for the character of Isobel Tolland in her husband's novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.