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Cultural formation | Vernon Lee | |
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
married James Darmesteter
after a brief courtship; it was said that she had proposed to him, in August 1887, shortly after their first meeting at the British Museum
. Sources disagree on the date... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vernon Lee | VL
's mother, Matilda (Adams) Paget
, was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales in 1815; she was one of four children of Sarah Adams
, who had lived for a time in Philadelphia, and Edward Hamlin Adams |
Fictionalization | Eliza Lynn Linton | In 1878, ELL
wrote to a relative, True success comes only by hard work, great courage in self-correction, and the most earnest and intense determination to succeed, not thinking that every endeavour is already success... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vernon Lee | VL
's supernatural stories are concerned with the spiritual essences of places and past cultures, often represented through the reappearances of classical goddesses and gods, or comparatively lesser-known Renaissance and eighteenth-century figures. Vineta Colby
finds... |
Literary responses | Vernon Lee | Lee's work had a highly mixed reception. It was praised by Pater: in a footnote added to the third edition of his Renaissance, he calls Euphoriona work abounding in knowledge and insights on... |
Literary responses | Vernon Lee | Shortly after the publication of this book she sent a copy to Robert Browning
, assuming he would appreciate the admiration she expresses for his poetry (The Ring and the Book). In June... |
Literary responses | Mary Cholmondeley | Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC
to Charlotte Brontë
or George Eliot
; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. qtd. in Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol. 20 , No. 2, Apr. 1970, pp. 213-28. 214 |
Literary responses | Mary Cholmondeley | None of these later novels achieved the success of Red Pottage. Critic Vineta Colby
writes that MC
's last novels invited the neglect they received from critics and public alike, because of their extreme... |
Literary responses | Vernon Lee | Lee's publication was panned in the Times Literary Supplement, but found strong support from Desmond MacCarthy
, writing as Affable Hawk in the New Statesman, and from G. B. Shaw
in the Nation... |
Literary responses | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | The Saturday Review called Once and Again a great advance upon any previous effort of the writer's. qtd. in 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, 1891, 2 vols. |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | The work has been consistently admired. On its appearance the editor of The Spectator praised it for wonderful mastery of the borderland of the natural and the supernatural, qtd. in Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996. 159: 256 |
politics | Vernon Lee | Vineta Colby
describes VL
's politics as liberal with socialist leanings. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003. 272 Gunn, Peter. Vernon Lee: Violet Paget, 1856-1935. Oxford University Press, 1964. 202 |
Author summary | 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... |
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