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The Sibyl, A Journal of Vernon Lee Studies
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“une nuit de cauchemar lucide. . . . une croisade, un chaos”
Vernon Lee, ‘The Refined Rebel’
Goodbye Charlie
Comme un souffle qui passe, par Sophie Geoffroy
EDITORIAL
Long Live Lee!
Happy birthday Vernon Lee!
Lee’s Week
Celebrating Violet Paget’s Birthday Today- Anniversaire de la naissance de Violet Paget (14 october 1856 – 13 February 1935)
A Passionate Pilgrim at Villa Il Palmerino, by Sophie Geoffroy
Encountering the Florentine Sibyl, by Sophie Geoffroy
Our Sponsors and Partners
Today’s Villa Il Palmerino
Vernon Lee by Mary Cassatt
The International Vernon Lee Society (IVLS)
10th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the IVLS – Villa Il Palmerino, Florence, September 9, 2023
IVLS 2024 – Membership Form
IVLS 2024 – Bulletin d’adhésion
Communication Committee
IVLS Calendar 2021
IVLS Annual Lecture: Dustin Friedman’s lecture is online
Assemblée Générale de l’IVLS 2020
IVLS Lecture: Dustin Friedman, October 14, 2020
Centenaire de Geneviève Noufflard (1920-2016)
IVLS Annual meeting in Paris – June 26, 2015
International Vernon Lee Society meeting in Paris 4 June 2014
Latest News
Carnet de recherche 2020 (Fr)
Research blog 2020
Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, Vol. I, Routledge
Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, Volume II, 1885-1889
Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, volume IV (1897-1904)
Not to be missed! The Ballet of the Nations at Villa Il Palmerino
The Ballet of the Nations, Palmerino, May 2019
Vient de paraître aux éditions Michel Houdiard
sad news: Geneviève Noufflard
Publication: Violet del Palmerino
Mary Robinson-Duclaux, d’une rive l’autre
Vernon Lee and Radical Circles: Paris Conference, 17-18-19 october 2013
Ten Years Ago, “Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant”. London, 10 June 2013
Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), A Chronology
Primary Sources
“Tanti auguri” from Vernon Lee: Noël 1931
“The Economic Parasitism of Women”
The Prince of the Hundred Soups
Tuscan Fairy Tales- Contents
Tuscan Fairy Tales First Pages and Introduction
The Little Convent of Cats
The Fairies’ Sieve
The Three Golden Apples
The Woman of Paste
The Beautiful Glutton
The King of Portugal’s Cowherd
The Three Cauliflowers
The Siren
The Glass Coffin
Leonbruno
“Capo Serpente”, by Vernon Lee
“La Nativité, tableau de Fra Filippo Lippi”, par Vernon Lee
“The Doll” (1927), by Vernon Lee
“La poupée”, trad. par Sophie Geoffroy, d’après “The Doll” de V. Lee
A Wedding Chest, by Vernon Lee
The Gods and Ritter Tanhûser, by Vernon Lee
Sister Benvenuta and the Christ Child (1906), by Vernon Lee
Vernon Lee, “The Economic Parasitism of Women”. Gospels of Anarchy and Other Contemporary Studies. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.
Divinities of Tuscan Summer Fields, by Vernon Lee
Dionysus in the Euganean Hills, Walter Pater in Memoriam, by Vernon Lee
Vernon Lee’s original manuscript of The Legend of Hilarion; how he witnessed the Nativity of Our Lord
“that peculiar unsymmetrical position” of Adam and Eve
26 décembre 1932: Vernon Lee célèbre Noël, il y a 80 ans
Armistice Day: Vernon Lee’s Letter to Mathilde Hecht, 17 November 1918
Articles and Reviews
Vernon Lee in Italy: a happy choice, by Rita Severi (University of Verona)
A Decadent Para(b)ox: Interiority and Exteriority in Barbey d’Aurevilly’s “A un dîner d’athées” and Vernon Lee’s “Oke of Okehurst” u0026#8211; by Anna Dang
Some European influences on the anti-war writings of Vernon Lee: E.D. Morel, Francis Delaisi and Marcel Sembat, by Angus Mitchell u0026amp; Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin
NEW: Vernon Lee and H. G. Wells
Vernon Lee Archives Around the World, by Mandy Gagel
Villa Il Palmerino: Art by Women in Florence, a Guide through Five Hundred Years
“Violet Paget’s Cousin: Alice Abadam, an Active Suffragist”, by Jill Davies
Alice Abadam. A Suffragist’s Cycle Tour in the North
“La Voix d’esprit: Music, jouissance; Vernon Lee, Willa Cather”, by Raymond Garcia III
Vernon Lee et la Beauté : pour une esthétique féministe et humaniste engagée, by Sophie Geoffroy
Taste, Entitlement and Power in V. Lee’s Prince of the Hundred Soups
The Development of V. Lee’s Politics by Phyllis Mannocchi
Les aspects de “La poupée” (1927), par Alice Mussard
The Price of a Lily, by Anthony Teets
“Miss Grief” (1880) by Constance Fenimore Woolson and “Lady Tal” (1892) by Vernon Lee: a Comparative Study, by Marie-Aude Torpos
Musique, images, voix dans les textes de Vernon Lee : une intertextualité transartistique
Singing Things: The Castrato in Vernon Lee’s Biography of a ‘Culture-Ghost’, by Anthony Teets
Le Don Juan fidèle dans “La Vierge aux sept poignards” de Vernon Lee, par Alice Mussard
Anatomical Venuses, Androgynous Boys, or the Renaissance Cassone
Sensibility, Sensitivity, and Heterotopia in Vernon Lee’s ‘it-narrative’: A Critical Introduction to ‘Biographie d’une Monnaie’(1870), by Anthony Teets and Sophie Geoffroy
Heurs et malheurs de l’enfance dans les textes de Vernon Lee
Book Review: A Phantom Lover (William P. Simmons ed., Shadow House Publishing, “Horror Hall of Fame Novellas”, Sept. 2020)
Corriere Fiorentino
Review of C. Maxwell and P. Pulham, eds., Vernon Lee, Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics,
Review of Dalla stanza accanto: Vernon Lee e Firenze settant’anni dopo
Sieberg u0026amp; Zorn, The Anglo-German Correspondence of Vernon Lee and Irene Forbes-Mosse during World War I ; Women Writers’ Friendship Transcending Enemy Lines
Contemporaneous Reception of Vernon Lee
Conferences, Seminars, Study Days
Vernon Lee 2019: An Anniversary Conference, Florence, 30-31 May 2019
Vernon Lee 2019: An Anniversary Conference in Florence
Study Day and Worshop 2017 – Journée d’étude et séminaire technique
Conférence “Vernon Lee: une femme libre au coeur de l’Europe”
CFP: Vernon Lee Seminar in Paris, March 8, 2016
CFP: Vernon Lee Seminar in Paris, March 8, 2016
Vernon Lee and Radical Circles: Paris Conference, 17-18-19 october 2013
Call for Papers: Women and Political Theory: Vernon lee and Radical Circles
Vernon Lee et les cercles radicaux: nouvelles du Colloque de Paris, 17-18-19 octobre 2013
Violet del Palmerino- Brochure
Violet del Palmerino, Florence, 27-28 septembre 2012
Violet del Palmerino-Videos-27 sept. 2012
Violet del Palmerino-Videos-28 sept. 2012 Morning
Violet del Palmerino-Videos-28 sept. 2012-Afternoon
Guests and Organisers, Speakers and Supporters : the Magic of Violet del Palmerino
Violet del Palmerino: Merci ! Grazie Mille! Thank you!
Auteurs – Authors
Geneviève Noufflard
Silvio Balloni
Elisa Bizzotto
Richard Allen Cave
Agnès Deleforge
Laura Desideri
Stefano Evangelista
Alessandro Fambrini
Amanda Gagel
Sophie Geoffroy
Ricarda Gerosa
Phyllis Mannocchi
Melissa Pritchard
Shafquat Towheed
The Vernon Lee Archive at the Colby Library
Témoignages/ Personal Impressions
Villa Il Palmerino, by Federica Parretti
Violet, Vernon, Fortunata e la villa del Palmerino, Laura Terzani
Violet, Vernon, Fortunata et la Villa Il Palmerino, trad. par Sophie et Marie-Thérèse Jorrand
Vernon Lee, The Paris Review, John Fothergill’s Innkeeper’s Diary
Video Library
Web-documentaire exclusif!
Web-documentaire exclusif!
New Video! In quest of the Genius Loci
“Vernon Lee and Art”, by Carolyn Burdett, an Interview by Sophie Geoffroy, London, 15 October 2019
NEW VIDEO! “Experiencing and Performing Art with Vernon Lee,” by Carolyn Burdett
NEW VIDEO: Ana Parejo Vadillo, “Two Cosmopolitan Women Writers at the Turn of the Century”
NEW Videos on “Vernon Lee Online” !
Interview de Sophie Geoffroy par Laura Terzani-28 sept. 2012
Digital Lee Project: HoL
Poster: présentation du projet Holographical-Lee (HoL)
Digital Vernon Lee in London-14OCT.2019
“C’est un monde qui s’écroule”: Eugene Lee-Hamilton et la Commune de Paris, lettres à sa famille (31 août 1870 – 9 juin 1871)
A Vernon Lee Bibliography
Alice Abadam. A Suffragist’s Cycle Tour. Supporters and Opponents
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