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
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'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
.
JEC
's friends in London included the scholar Richard Garnett
(superintendent of the British Museum
reading room and future father-in-law of another translator, Constance Garnett
). They met in 1877 or 1878, and Richard Garnett...
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds.
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Vernon Lee
, she said, was primarily a friend of her scientist husband; they both stayed with her several times. Schütze pondered the paradox...
Friends, Associates
Frances Power Cobbe
There she met and became a friend of Violet Paget
, who was then newly published under the pseudonym Vernon Lee. By the early 1890s, FPC
had become friendly with another late Victorian writer: Katharine Bradley
Vernon Lee
had perceived something Athenaeumy in RMW
's writing several years before she appeared in its pages.
Demoor, Marysa. Their Fair Share. Ashgate.
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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.
The young Vernon Lee
praised this novel enthusiastically in an Italian article published in La Rivista in October...
Literary responses
Jane Hume Clapperton
A review by Vernon Lee
for The Academy was similarly positive, calling JHC
's book an important,valuable, and noble production, whose primary contribution was its originality: without being actually original in any separate...
Literary responses
Julia Kavanagh
In the AthenæumH. F. Chorley
agreed with Brontë, noting that many passages are written with Miss Kavanagh's usual sentiment and delicacy; but we can wish her no better wish than the earliest possible deliverance...
Literary Setting
A. Mary F. Robinson
The Red Clove, set in Italy, is dedicated to Vernon Lee
,, while Two Sisters, a memory of childhood, addresses Robinson's sister Mabel
. Several poems draw heavily on the world of...
Occupation
Jane Ellen Harrison
Harrison was profoundly affected by criticisms made by MacColl
of her lecturing style and her approach to art. After he voiced his critique in early 1887, she began to focus increasingly on folk religions rather...