Vineta Colby

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.

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...

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 .

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

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...

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...