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)
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Linda Falcone: Fighting Spirits: Vernon Lee’s campaign to save medieval Florence
Not to be missed: Tonight’s Wednesday lecture at the British Institute in Florence will feature Linda Falcone about Vernon Lee’s campaign to save medieval Florence! “Florence’s turn-of-the-century plan for urban renewal included replacing the Ponte Vecchio. It took an international … Continue reading
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Online lecture by Dr Claudia Tobin, February 23, 2021
Claudia Tobin: “Travelling Portraits: Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf, Ottoline Morrell, Vanessa Bell” Colonica del Palmerino, via del Palmerino 6 23 February 2021, 6.30pm (CET) On-line lecture in English: Travelling at the turn of the century without ever feeling foreign. From … Continue reading
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New Video! In quest of the Genius Loci
Nouvelle video! Sur les traces de l’esprit du lieu On this St Genevieve’s Day, please enjoy our latest video, featuring Geneviève Noufflard, filmed some 8 years ago in Paris and at Fresnay-le-Long, and discover what we found there… Aujourd’hui, Ste … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnolo Bronzino, Amour dure, André Noufflard, Berthe Noufflard, Christian Beguinet, Geneviève Noufflard, Genius Loci, Gilles Pasquet, International Vernon Lee Society, Lucrezia Panciatichi, Pôle Image de Rouen, Shafquat Towheed, Sophie Geoffroy, Vernon Lee
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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, Volume II, 1885-1889
Dear readers, we are glad to announce the publication, today, of Volume II of the Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856-1935, by Sophie Geoffroy (ed.) and Amanda Gagel (assoc. ed.). 762 p. Translation from the French: Sophie Geoffroy; translation from … Continue reading
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Some European influences on the anti-war writings of Vernon Lee: E.D. Morel, Francis Delaisi and Marcel Sembat, by Angus Mitchell & Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin
Some European influences on the anti-war writings of Vernon Lee: E.D. Morel, Francis Delaisi and Marcel Sembat Angus Mitchell & Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin The later political writings of Vernon Lee have been unfairly neglected in many studies of the First … Continue reading
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Tagged Angus Mitchell, Caoilfhionn Ni Bheachain, ED Morel, Francis Delaisi, Marcel Sembat, pacifism, Romain Rolland, Vernon Lee, WWI
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