Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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Reception | Vernon Lee | Interest in her work was waning by 1937 when some of her letters were first privately printed (though Mary Agnes Hamilton
in Remembering My Good Friends, 1944, noted her extreme subtlety and acuteness of... |
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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... |
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 |
Textual Features | Mary Augusta Ward | Vineta Colby
comments that here and in its predecessor, Both novels are dressed and furnished in meticulous detail. The cold statistics of the parliament
ary Blue Books are bedecked in sables and lace. Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press. 156-7 |
Textual Features | Mary Augusta Ward | The novel describes how the empty widowhood of the eponymous character has been saved by books generating that inner sweetness, that gentle restoring flame that comes from the life of ideas, the life of knowledge... |
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... |
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