Vineta Colby

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...

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...

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...