Vineta Colby

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 .

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...