Vineta Colby

The Saturday Review called Once and Again a great advance upon any previous effort of the writer's. The young Vernon Lee praised this novel enthusiastically in an Italian article published in La Rivista in October...

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, and said it demonstrated MO

VL 's supernatural stories are concerned with the spiritual essences of places and past cultures, often represented through the reappearances of classical goddesses and gods, or comparatively lesser-known Renaissance and eighteenth-century figures. Vineta Colby finds...

In 1878, ELL wrote to a relative, True success comes only by hard work, great courage in self-correction, and the most earnest and intense determination to succeed, not thinking that every endeavour is already success...

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 .

VL 's mother, Matilda (Adams) Paget , was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales in 1815; she was one of four children of Sarah Adams , who had lived for a time in Philadelphia, and Edward Hamlin Adams

As early as 24 August 1887 VL was calling Kit her new love, or new life (adapting the title of a poem which had been written for Lee by Amy Levy ). The two...

In her biography of Lee, Vineta Colby repeats longstanding judgments about the author's sexuality by emphasizing that she made no effort to conceal her attachments to women, but was hesitant about—even repelled by—sexual intimacy...