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Time for membership renewal
Dear members, dear friends, with my very best wishes for 2024, I wish to express, like I did last year, my dearest wish that peace may reign on earth, as Vernon Lee herself desired. During the past year, this natural… Continue reading
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The Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese Translations of Vernon Lee
Queridos lectores, amigos de Vernon Lee, A principios de 2024, quiero destacar el notable trabajo realizado por los traductores, editores científicos, críticos, estudiantes o simples aficionados de Vernon Lee en español, catalán, portugués de Portugal y portugués de Brasil. La… Continue reading
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“La route en lacets qui monte” par Romain Rolland
(for the English version of R. Rolland’s text, please scroll down) En décembre 1916, Romain Rolland, l’auteur de Au-dessus de la mêlée et de Jean-Christophe, à qui Vernon Lee avait dédicacé The Ballet of the Nations, et pour qui elle… Continue reading
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Latest Vernon Lee Books for Christmas
Dear readers, it is a great pleasure to announce that, following on our Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856-1935, Volume I, 1865-1884, published in 2016, and Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856-1935, Volume II, 1885-1889 published in 2020, Selected Letters… Continue reading
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Not to be Missed: 3 Exhibitions and 2 Books
Dear readers, we are delighted to announce 3 major events and 2 books, which, I am sure, will be of interest to any Vernon Lee scholar or student. Your feedbacks are always welcome! TONIGHT’S EVENT: INAUGURATION OF Palace Women, Oltrarno… Continue reading
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This is my birthday…
“This is my birthday & I cannot let it pass without writing to you” Vernon Lee to Matilda Paget, October 14, 1891. Vernon Lee Archive, Miller Library, Colby College Dear readers, October 14 marks the date of Violet Paget’s birth… Continue reading
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Ossessioni: a new translation of Hauntings in Italian
Ossessioni, Raccolta di raconti gotici At long last, a translation into Italian of Vernon Lee’s best-known fantastic texts! This is great news indeed! Continue reading
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Sentimental Travellers, a Retrospective -Villa Il Palmerino, 30 May-30 June 2023
Dear Readers of Vernon Lee and Friends of Il Palmerino, we are delighted to announce the exclusive retrospective exhibition of works by Clementina Anstruther-Thomson, Vernon Lee, Federigo Angeli, Lola Costa, Thomas Watt Cafe and many others, curated by Pier-Antonio Gottardo,… Continue reading
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Introducing Lee’s Grandmother: Amelia Sofia Macpherson (1776-1831)
Sally Blackburn-Daniels (@drSallyBD) At the end of 2022 I received an incredibly exciting message via my ancestry.com account: Hello, my name is David Devan, I live in Northeast New York, not too far from the Canadian border. I buy, sell,… Continue reading
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Recent Works Relevant to Lee Scholars:
Compiled by Sally Blackburn-Daniels Monographs Heather Bozant Witcher,’Towards Empathy: Vernon Lee’s Psychological Aesthetics’, in Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Suzanne Hobson, ‘The Ethics of Unbelief in Vernon Lee and… Continue reading
