Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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Textual Features | Vernon Lee | Lee dedicated this work to her friend the German critic Karl Hillebrand
. Set at the close of the eighteenth century in a small German town, the story is told by a narrator who observes... |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | Anstruther-Thompson inspired the figure of Althea, who engages with her teacher Baldwin (here, as in other texts, representing the author). However, as Vineta Colby
observes, the writing consists rather of philosophical monologues interspersed with descriptive... |
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... |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | Vineta Colby
calls this text an exploration of the psychology of war as the basis for the cultivation of a psychology of peace. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 302 Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 302 |
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. |
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. Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol. 20 , No. 2, 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... |
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