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: Sally Blackburn-Daniels
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vernon Lee, Aesthetics & Empathy: Conference in Cambridge, 12-13 September 2022
Dear Vernon Lee friends, Don’t miss tomorrow’s important conference on Vernon Lee’s philosophy of art and empathy, organised by Derek Matravers and Sally Blackburn-Daniels! Conference Programme 12th September 09:00 Tea and Coffee 09:30 Welcome 09:40 Jesse Prinz: ‘Is Aesthetic Experience … Continue reading
A Summer with Vernon Lee : 28-31 August 2022 at Villa Il Palmerino
Dear friends and readers, we are delighted to announce the series of events organised by the Associazione Culturale Il Palmerino. Scheduled on August 28, 29, 30 and 31: IN VERNON LEE’S NAME will present a series of artistic and creative … Continue reading