Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol.
20
, No. 2, pp. 213-28. 214
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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. |
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 Gunn, Peter. Vernon Lee: Violet Paget, 1856-1935. Oxford University Press. 202 |
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... |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vernon Lee | 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... |
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 Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 302 |
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... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vernon Lee | 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 |
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