Vineta Colby

VL spent her childhood migrating with her family, mainly on her mother's family funds, through Germany, Italy, France, and Switzerland. In The Sentimental Traveller, VL comments that We shifted our...

As early as 24 August 1887 VL was calling Kit her new love, or new life (adapting the title of a poem which had been written for Lee by Amy Levy ). The two...

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, but was hesitant about—even repelled by—sexual intimacy...

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...

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, and said it demonstrated MO

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 .

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.

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...