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 .

Connections

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Friends, Associates Jessie Ellen Cadell
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...
Friends, Associates F. Mabel Robinson
FMR shared to the full the social involvement of her family with entertaining leading figures in London cultural life: such men as John Singer Sargent , Robert Browning , William Morris , and Oscar Wilde
Friends, Associates Sarah Orne Jewett
SOJ had a broad social circle. She belonged to an artistic community of women that included Celia Thaxter and Louise Guiney , and counted Harriet Beecher Stowe (whose funeral she and Annie Fields attended in...
Friends, Associates A. Mary F. Robinson
AMFR and Vernon Lee attended a tea-party at John Singer Sargent 's London studio.
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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Friends, Associates Ellen Mary Clerke
EMC 's friends included Vernon Lee and Agnes Mary Frances Robinson .
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.
Friends, Associates Gladys Henrietta Schütze
GHS also knew and loved the greatOlive Schreiner .
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
Friends, Associates Mary Kingsley
In CambridgeMK developed close female friendships for the first time. The women included Hatty Johnson , Clara Skeat , and Agnes Smith Lewis . Lucy Toulmin Smith , first female head of a public...
Intertextuality and Influence Gladys Henrietta Schütze
As a child GHSimagined that a person, particularly a lady, would have to be something very unusual to produce real books.
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds.
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She was reassured by the ordinary appearance of Effie Adelaide Rowlands (pen-name...
Literary responses Rosamund Marriott Watson
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...

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