Vernon Lee
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Standard Name: Lee, Vernon
Birth Name: Violet Paget
Pseudonym: Vernon Lee
VL
's writing career spanned more than five decades during the later the nineteenth century and the earlier twentieth. She wrote critical monographs, essays, and reviews (on aesthetics, politics, and history), as well as short stories, novels, and drama. Much of her work is currently out of print. However two books published in 2003 mark a renewed interest in Lee's life's work: Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography by Vineta Colby
, and Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual by Christa Zorn
.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Mathilde Blind | Nothing is known of MB
's sexuality, but the homosociality of some of her love poetry and her connection to Vernon Lee
's circle is suggestive. |
Dedications | A. Mary F. Robinson | Several of these poems are addressed to her friend Vernon Lee
. Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995. 538 |
Dedications | A. Mary F. Robinson | AMFR
published a book of criticism on French literature, The French Procession, A Pageant of Great Writers, with a dedication to Vernon Lee
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Family and Intimate relationships | A. Mary F. Robinson | AMFR
had met the poet Vernon Lee
by 1878 (a little earlier than is often supposed), the year she turned twenty-one, since her first publication includes poems addressed to Lee. They became close friends and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amy Levy | AL
addressed letters and love-poems to the writer Vernon Lee
, whom she had met that spring in Florence, and for whom she cherished an unrequited love. Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000. 254-5, 119-21 |
Family and Intimate relationships | A. Mary F. Robinson | By 22 July 1882 AMFR
and Vernon Lee
were staying for a holiday at a rented cottage in Sussex. Zorn, Christa. Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual. Ohio University Press, 2003. 8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mathilde Blind | MB
also had a half-brother from her mother's second marriage, Rudolph Blind
, who was an artist. Vernon Lee
pronounced him an awful little snob. Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the Athenæum: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, No. 1, pp. 51 -71. 53, 69n11 |
Family and Intimate relationships | A. Mary F. Robinson | AMFR
married James Darmesteter
after a brief courtship; it was said that she had proposed to him, in August 1887, shortly after their first meeting at the British Museum
. Sources disagree on the date... |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | Katharine
and Edith Cooper
shared a great many distinguished friends in the worlds of literature and aesthetics: Walter Pater
, Oscar Wilde
, Arthur Symons
, Charles Shannon
, Sarianna Browning
, Thomas Sturge Moore |
Friends, Associates | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
Friends, Associates | Constance Smedley | Their London associates included writers and artists like (besides Margaret Morris
herself) Vernon Lee
, Gladys Henrietta Schütze
or Henrietta Leslie (a next-door neighbour in Chelsea, and with her husband one of the only non-theatrical... |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Ormston Ford | Besides the Ford sisters, other members of the UDC included founding member James Ramsay MacDonald
, executive committee member Helena Swanwick
, and Vernon Lee
, who was a good friend of IOF
's sister... |
Friends, Associates | Amy Levy | They included Olive Schreiner
, the future Beatrice Webb
, Dollie Maitland Radford
, Margaret Harkness
, Clementina Black
(whose sister Constance
had been a school friend of AL
), and Eleanor Marx
. Through... |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Smyth | ES
's many other friends included writer Maurice Baring
, Lady Ponsonby
, the Empress Eugénie
of France, Vernon Lee
, and Vita Sackville-West
. Collis, Louise. Impetuous Heart: The Story of Ethel Smyth. William Kimber, 1984. 57, 65, 174, 200 St John, Christopher. Ethel Smyth. Longmans, Green, 1959. 117-18 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Her travels enabled her to meet [w]omen from all over the world, fine women, thoughtful progressive women! Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. An Autobiography. Lane, Ann J.Editor , University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. 301 |
Timeline
1895
Thomas Bird Mosher
of Portland, Maine, began publishing The Bibelot. A Reprint of Poetry & Prose for Book Lovers, a monthly series later collected as an annual volume, of exquisitely produced editions in tiny press-runs.
5 March 1946
Winston Churchill
made a famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he described an iron curtain coming down across Europe, dividing the east from the west.