International Vernon Lee Society
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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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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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10th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the IVLS – Villa Il Palmerino, Florence, September 9, 2023
Sabato 9 settembre 2023, si è tenuto il nostro decimo incontro annuale presso Villa Il Palmerino, a Firenze: casa di Vernon Lee, ora sede della nostra cara associazione gemella: l’Associazione Culturale Il Palmerino. Questo evento è stato un’esperienza indimenticabile, un’occasione… Continue reading
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The Future of Intelligence in Florence, Villa Il Palmerino 8-10 september 2023
Ticket sales are open, the Eventbrite page is here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-intelligence-a-multidisciplinary-vernon-lee-conference-tickets-648328958367?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl 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
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The Future of Intelligence: a Multidisciplinary Vernon Lee Conference, 8-10 September 2023, Florence and Online
“Intelligence is especially preservative and sheltering. It is the natural purifier and tidier-up where Genius and Stupidity, disrupting and corrupting by turns, have played the deuce with our poor mortal heritage. And in the face of the millionfold sacrifices of… Continue reading
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
« … presents give me a very lively and special pleasure; have done so always ever since my days of Christmas-trees and birthday candles, leaving all through my life a particular permeating charm connected with certain dates and seasons, like the… Continue reading
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Colloque international, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 13-14 Octobre 2022
Dear readers, We are delighted to invite you to attend the international conference organised by Pr. Marc Rolland (ULCO) in Boulogne-sur-mer, where Violet Paget was born on October 14, 1856. The annual General Meeting of the International Vernon Lee Society… Continue reading
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In memoriam: Vernon Lee, 13 February 1935
87 years ago, Violet Paget passed away at her Villa Il Palmerino in Florence. The painter Berthe Noufflard, whose beautiful portraits of Vernon Lee truly deserve a public exhibition, and who was “Miss Paget’s” friend over the last ten years… Continue reading
