Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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, 2003. 335 |
Family and Intimate relationships | A. Mary F. Robinson | AMFR
had met the poet Vernon Lee
by 1878 (a little earlier than is often supposed), the year she turned twenty-one, since her first publication includes poems addressed to Lee. They became close friends and... |
Fictionalization | Vernon Lee | Marie Belloc Lowndes
, who knew VL
fairly well, felt out of sympathy with her frightening erudition and off-putting snobbery—but she was indignant at Anatole France
's caricature of Lee in Le lys rouge. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Where Love and Friendship Dwelt. Macmillan, 1943. 177 |
politics | Storm Jameson | |
Reception | Elizabeth Bowen | Cyril Connolly
expressed his admiration in the New Statesman, where he was reviewing a novel for the first time. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 78 |
Textual Production | Marcel Proust | In his preface, Anatole France
attributes to the author a marvelous sense of observation, a flexible, penetrating and truly subtle intelligence. qtd. in Carter, William C. Marcel Proust: A Life. Yale University Press, 2000. 212 |
Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | In its latter years the Dreadnought took on a more literary tone, featuring stories by Anatole France
and poetry by Ezra Pound
. One of those who worked on it with SP
was Claude McKay |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marie Belloc Lowndes | This book deals very largely with her French extended family, her visits to France as a young adult, and her French social circles. She meant it to dispel certain false ideas, English rather than American... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Natalie Clifford Barney | The first half, devoted to men, describes NCB
's encounters with Oscar Wilde
, Anatole France
, Remy de Gourmont
, Marcel Proust
, Gabriele D'Annunzio
, Max Jacob
, and others. The second part... |
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