Vineta Colby

Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC to Charlotte Brontë or George Eliot ; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. An Edinburgh Review article written in 1900 praised Red Pottage in...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Vineta Colby describes VL 's politics as liberal with socialist leanings. Lee disagreed with the Liberal government's refusal to grant women the vote: she supported suffrage but disapproved of militancy. Her views on...

Lee's work had a highly mixed reception. It was praised by Pater: in a footnote added to the third edition of his Renaissance, he calls Euphoriona work abounding in knowledge and insights on...

Shortly after the publication of this book she sent a copy to Robert Browning , assuming he would appreciate the admiration she expresses for his poetry (The Ring and the Book). In June...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Vineta Colby calls this text an exploration of the psychology of war as the basis for the cultivation of a psychology of peace. It contains little psychological essays written between 1915 and 1919...