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
.
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | In Manchester HCJ
became by 1854 a friend of Elizabeth Gaskell
, who helped her with publishing business. Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Editors Chapple, J. A. V. and Arthur Pollard, Harvard University Press. 286 Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin et al., Longmans, Green, p. 1: xi - clxx. li |
Friends, Associates | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | During these last years many friends, both from Edinburgh and from earlier times in HCJ
's life, remained faithful visitors or letter-writers: these included members of the Constable
publishing family, John Ruffini
, and Vernon Lee
. Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin et al., Longmans, Green, p. 1: xi - clxx. cxlvii |
Friends, Associates | Walter Pater | From his time at BrasenoseWP
knew Oscar Browning
. In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse
, Algernon Charles Swinburne
, Simeon Solomon
, Oscar Wilde
, Vernon Lee
, A. Mary F. Robinson |
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. 66 |
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. 128-9 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | Katharine
and Edith Cooper
shared a great many distinguished friends in the worlds of literature and aesthetics: Walter Pater
, Oscar Wilde
, Arthur Symons
, Charles Shannon
, Sarianna Browning
, Thomas Sturge Moore |
Friends, Associates | Constance Smedley | 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... |
Friends, Associates | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Smyth | ES
's many other friends included writer Maurice Baring
, Lady Ponsonby
, the Empress Eugénie
of France, Vernon Lee
, and Vita Sackville-West
. Collis, Louise. Impetuous Heart: The Story of Ethel Smyth. William Kimber. 57, 65, 174, 200 St John, Christopher. Ethel Smyth. Longmans, Green. 117-18 |
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