Dear readers,

we are happy to announce the following publication of works on Vernon Lee:

Bronte Schiltz, “‘Mysterious Influences’: Androgyny and Transgressive Sexuality in Vernon Lee’s ‘A Wicked Voice’ and ‘Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady'”. Oindrila Ghosh (ed.) Vision, Contestation and Deception; Interrogating Gender and the Supernatural in Victorian Shorter Fiction. Memari, Burdwan (India): Avenel Press, 2021, 99-120.

We welcome Oindrila Ghosh’s work, signalling Vernon Lee’s success in India!

And we are pleased to announce that Patricia Rigg, A. Mary F. Robinson: Victorian Poet and Modern Woman of Letters will be released 15 September 2021 by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

This is the first literary biography of Robinson in English that examines her entire oeuvre and assesses her impact on the Anglo-French community in England and France. A most important book for all Vernon Lee scholars! For details, please see https://www.mqup.ca/a–mary-f–robinson-products-9780228008842.php?page_id=73&

Please make the Sibyl yours! Send us your announcements of any work connected with Vernon Lee (books, articles, lectures, performances, adaptations…) for insertion here and in the updated Bibliography here or in our database Holographical-Lee (HoL)
Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) : Letters, notebooks and manuscripts – Lettres, carnets et manuscrits.

Enjoy your summer time, reading, writing, in a –hopefully– Covid free place!

Best wishes

Sophie Geoffroy