Vineta Colby

Standard Name: Colby, Vineta

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Cultural formation Vernon Lee
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,
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
335
but was hesitant about—even repelled by—sexual intimacy...
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 Vernon Lee
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...
Literary responses Vernon Lee
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...
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...
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 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 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...

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