Vineta Colby

Standard Name: Colby, Vineta

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Textual Features	Mary Augusta Ward	Vineta Colby comments that here and in its predecessor, Both novels are dressed and furnished in meticulous detail. The cold statistics of the parliament ary Blue Books are bedecked in sables and lace. Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press. 156-7
Textual Features	Mary Augusta Ward	The novel describes how the empty widowhood of the eponymous character has been saved by books generating that inner sweetness, that gentle restoring flame that comes from the life of ideas, the life of knowledge...
Textual Features	Vernon Lee	Lee dedicated this work to her friend the German critic Karl Hillebrand . Set at the close of the eighteenth century in a small German town, the story is told by a narrator who observes...
Textual Features	Vernon Lee	Vineta Colby suggests that Lee's novel is not a specific attack on either Pre-Raphaelitism or Ruskin 's Christian aestheticism, but on the more general high art groups, which read hedonism into Pater and vaunted the...
Textual Features	Vernon Lee	Anstruther-Thompson inspired the figure of Althea, who engages with her teacher Baldwin (here, as in other texts, representing the author). However, as Vineta Colby observes, the writing consists rather of philosophical monologues interspersed with descriptive...
Textual Features	Vernon Lee	Vineta Colby calls this text an exploration of the psychology of war as the basis for the cultivation of a psychology of peace. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 302 It contains little psychological essays Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 302 written between 1915 and 1919...
Residence	Vernon Lee	VL spent her childhood migrating with her family, mainly on her mother's family funds, through Germany, Italy, France, and Switzerland. In The Sentimental Traveller, VL comments that We shifted our...
Reception	Vernon Lee	Interest in her work was waning by 1937 when some of her letters were first privately printed (though Mary Agnes Hamilton in Remembering My Good Friends, 1944, noted her extreme subtlety and acuteness of...
Author summary	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...
politics	Vernon Lee	Vineta Colby describes VL 's politics as liberal with socialist leanings. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 272 Lee disagreed with the Liberal government's refusal to grant women the vote: she supported suffrage but disapproved of militancy. Gunn, Peter. Vernon Lee: Violet Paget, 1856-1935. Oxford University Press. 202 Her views on...
Literary responses	Mary Cholmondeley	Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC to Charlotte Brontë or George Eliot ; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol. 20 , No. 2, pp. 213-28. 214 An Edinburgh Review article written in 1900 praised Red Pottage in...
Literary responses	Vernon Lee	Lee's publication was panned in the Times Literary Supplement, but found strong support from Desmond MacCarthy , writing as Affable Hawk in the New Statesman, and from G. B. Shaw in the Nation...
Literary responses	Mary Cholmondeley	None of these later novels achieved the success of Red Pottage. Critic Vineta Colby writes that MC 's last novels invited the neglect they received from critics and public alike, because of their extreme...
Literary responses	Henrietta Camilla Jenkin	The Saturday Review called Once and Again a great advance upon any previous effort of the writer's. Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott. The young Vernon Lee praised this novel enthusiastically in an Italian article published in La Rivista in October...
Literary responses	Margaret Oliphant	The work has been consistently admired. On its appearance the editor of The Spectator praised it for wonderful mastery of the borderland of the natural and the supernatural, Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research. 159: 256 and said it demonstrated MO

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Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol.

, No. 2, pp. 213-28.

Colby, Vineta, and Robert Alan Colby. The Equivocal Virtue. Archon Books, 1966.

Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press, 1970.

Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Colby, Vineta. Yesterday’s Woman: Domestic Realism in the English Novel. Princeton University Press, 1974.