LEADER 04318nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910957129203321 005 20251116182940.0 010 $a0-8139-2389-1 035 $a(CKB)3240000000068565 035 $a(OCoLC)812925032 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10602559 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000607819 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11376571 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607819 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10590377 035 $a(PQKB)11386285 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444060 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6604 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444060 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10602559 035 $a(BIP)32045136 035 $a(BIP)7925917 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000068565 100 $a20020821d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVernon Lee $ea literary biography /$fVineta Colby 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCharlottesville $cUniversity of Virginia Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (414 p.) 225 0$aVictorian literature and culture series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8139-2158-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [363]-372) and index. 327 $aCover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Infant Prodigy -- 2 The Eighteenth Century and After -- 3 Belcaro: Defining a Self -- 4 The Lesson of the Master: Pater and Euphorion -- 5 The Teller and the Tales -- 6 Miss Brown -- 7 The Buried Life -- 8 "This Clever Woman Who Calls Herself Vernon Lee" -- 9 Aesthetics and the Health of the Soul -- 10 Labora et Noli Contristari -- 11 Handling Words: From Practice to Theory -- 12 Music: The Apollonian Quest -- 13 Demons, Ghosts, and the Genius Loci: Stories of the Supernatural -- 14 Demons, Ghosts, and the Genius Loci: Travel Writing -- 15 "Sister in Utopia": The Aesthete as Polemicist -- 16 A Wilderness of Wolves -- 17 Hunting Proteus: The Last Years -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations. 330 $aVernon Lee, born Violet Paget in 1856 to English parents who lived on the Continent, bridged two worlds and many cultures. She was a Victorian by birth but lived into the second quarter of the twentieth century. Her chosen home was Italy, but she spent part of every year in England, where she published over the years an impressive number of books: novels, short stories, travel essays, studies of Italian art and music, psychological aesthetics, polemics. She was widely recognized as a woman of letters and moved freely in major literary and social circles, meeting and at times having close friendships with a huge number of the major writers and intellectuals of her time, among them Robert Browning, Walter Pater, Henry James, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Bernard Berenson, and Mario Praz. Although she never committed herself to one program of political activism, she was an advocate for feminism and social reform and during World War I was an ardent pacifist. In her last years she watched with dismay the emergence of fascism. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography recovers this crowded and intellectually eventful life from her previously unpublished letters and journals, as well as from her books themselves. Vineta Colby also explores Lee's troubled personal life, from her childhood in an eccentric expatriate family to her several unhappy love affairs with women to her frank recognition that her work, brilliant as some of it was, remained unappreciated. Through it all, Vernon Lee clung to her faith in the life of the mind, and through Colby's engaging biographical narrative, she emerges today as a writer worthy of renewed attention and admiration. Victorian Literature and Culture Series 606 $aAuthors, English$y19th century$vBiography 606 $aLesbians$zGreat Britain$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, English 615 0$aLesbians 676 $a824/.8 676 $aB 700 $aColby$b Vineta$0222561 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910957129203321 996 $aVernon Lee$9758494 997 $aUNINA