Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Vernon Lee
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Standard Name: Lee, Vernon
Birth Name: Violet Paget
Pseudonym: 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 stories, novels, and drama. Much of her work is currently out of print. However two books published in 2003 mark a renewed interest in Lee's life's work: Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography by Vineta Colby
, and Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual by Christa Zorn
.
Their London associates included writers and artists like (besides Margaret Morris
herself) Vernon Lee
, Gladys Henrietta Schütze
or Henrietta Leslie (a next-door neighbour in Chelsea, and with her husband one of the only non-theatrical...
Collis, Louise. Impetuous Heart: The Story of Ethel Smyth. William Kimber.
57, 65, 174, 200
St John, Christopher. Ethel Smyth. Longmans, Green.
117-18
Textual Features
Ethel Smyth
Major characters in the narrative included Vernon Lee
and Henry Brewster
.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
6: 38n1
ES
also wrote here, I am the most interesting person I know, and I don't care if no one else thinks...
Friends, Associates
Susan Tweedsmuir
ST
's parents made connections through friendship as remarkable as those made for them by family descent. Her mother was a friend of many writers and intellectuals of both sexes, including Marie Belloc Lowndes
,...
Friends, Associates
Linda Villari
LV
and her husband were both friends of Vernon Lee
, accepting her hospitality and moving in the same circles.
Gunn, Peter. Vernon Lee: Violet Paget, 1856-1935. Oxford University Press.
96
Lee corresponded with LV
from the late 1870s to the early 1880s and discussed...
Vernon Lee
had perceived something Athenaeumy in RMW
's writing several years before she appeared in its pages.
Demoor, Marysa. Their Fair Share. Ashgate.
124
Friends, Associates
Augusta Webster
Vernon Lee
described in a diary entry attending a housewarming party at the Websters' in Hammersmith: An enormous crush, of ill-dressed, eccentric literary pumps. I spoke to Wm Rossetti
, Watts
, Sharp
...
