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.
Vineta Colby
Standard Name: Colby, Vineta
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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. |
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, Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research. 159: 256 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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. 335 |
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