Violet Paget, Studio Broggi, Florence
“Literature is the universal confidant, the spiritual director of mankind" Vernon Lee
Portrait de Miss Paget par Berthe Noufflard, 1932
"L’avantage d’être écrivain, même sans lecteurs, c’est de pouvoir éviter tout malentendu et toute déloyauté en mettant sous les yeux des autres ce qu’on pense sous forme de livre." VL, Lettre à Berthe Noufflard 26 juillet 1925
Miss Paget, portrait photographique par André Noufflard
« Mais si seulement les gens voulaient reconnaître dans leurs semblables : des semblables, l’autre soi-même du Bouddhisme ou du moins une pauvre bête aussi capable de souffrance et d’erreur que soi-même ! » (Vernon Lee, Lettre à Mathilde Hecht, 30 décembre 1921)
Tag Archives: Mary F Burns
Dedication: Unfurling Vernon Lee’s Kinship Networks, Online 16 & 17 October 2024
Dear readers and friends of Vernon Lee, we are delighted to share the final programme of the online conference “Dedication: Unfurling Vernon Lee’s Kinship Networks”, supported by the International Vernon Lee Society. Organized by Frankie Dytor (University of Exeter), Lucinda … Continue reading
Dedication: Unfurling Vernon Lee’s Kinship Networks -16 & 17 October 2024
We are delighted to announce that registration is now OPEN through eventbrite at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dedication-unfurling-vernon-lees-kinship-networks-tickets-990567924327 Looking forward to seeing you there, to celebrate Vernon Lee’s birthday together for the 11th time since the IVLS was created! The event is … Continue reading
Vernon Lee, Queer Musicology and a Book review
Review of Kristin M. Franseen, Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson , Liverpool: Liverpool University Press & Clemson University Press, 2023. ISBN 9781638040583. eISBN 9781638040590. 280 pages The book is organized … 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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Tagged #Florence, alyson price, Associazione Culturale Il Palmerino, brenda luize roepke, chunlin men, derek matravers, elisa bizzotto, Federica Parretti, frankie dytor, Gilles Pasquet, ingrid hanson, International Vernon Lee Society, jessa granata, Jessica Hunter, joseph bristow, lucinda janson, Mary F Burns, matthew bradley, max saunders, michel prum, nicole fluhr, Orsolya Albert, rachel baldacchino, Sally Blackburn-Daniels, Shafquat Towheed, siobhan smith, Sophie Geoffroy, stefano vincieri, suzy corrigan, tomi-ann roberts
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The Character-Driven Story in Historical Mysteries: An interview with the author of the John Singer Sargent & Violet Paget Mysteries, Mary F. Burns
The Sibyl is delighted to share with you an interview with one of the members of the International Vernon Lee Society, author Mary F Burns. Mary is the author of several books of historical fiction, and member of and book reviewer for … Continue reading