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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- “Tanti auguri” from Vernon Lee: Noël 1931
- “The Economic Parasitism of Women”
- The Prince of the Hundred Soups
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- “Capo Serpente”, by Vernon Lee
- “La Nativité, tableau de Fra Filippo Lippi”, par Vernon Lee
- “The Doll” (1927), by Vernon Lee
- “La poupée”, trad. par Sophie Geoffroy, d’après “The Doll” de V. Lee
- A Wedding Chest, by Vernon Lee
- The Gods and Ritter Tanhûser, by Vernon Lee
- Sister Benvenuta and the Christ Child (1906), by Vernon Lee
- Vernon Lee, “The Economic Parasitism of Women”. Gospels of Anarchy and Other Contemporary Studies. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.
- Divinities of Tuscan Summer Fields, by Vernon Lee
- Dionysus in the Euganean Hills, Walter Pater in Memoriam, by Vernon Lee
- Vernon Lee’s original manuscript of The Legend of Hilarion; how he witnessed the Nativity of Our Lord
- “that peculiar unsymmetrical position” of Adam and Eve
- 26 décembre 1932: Vernon Lee célèbre Noël, il y a 80 ans
- Armistice Day: Vernon Lee’s Letter to Mathilde Hecht, 17 November 1918
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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
- NEW: Vernon Lee and H. G. Wells
- Vernon Lee Archives Around the World, by Mandy Gagel
- Villa Il Palmerino: Art by Women in Florence, a Guide through Five Hundred Years
- “Violet Paget’s Cousin: Alice Abadam, an Active Suffragist”, by Jill Davies
- “La Voix d’esprit: Music, jouissance; Vernon Lee, Willa Cather”, by Raymond Garcia III
- Vernon Lee et la Beauté : pour une esthétique féministe et humaniste engagée, by Sophie Geoffroy
- Taste, Entitlement and Power in V. Lee’s Prince of the Hundred Soups
- The Development of V. Lee’s Politics by Phyllis Mannocchi
- Les aspects de “La poupée” (1927), par Alice Mussard
- The Price of a Lily, by Anthony Teets
- “Miss Grief” (1880) by Constance Fenimore Woolson and “Lady Tal” (1892) by Vernon Lee: a Comparative Study, by Marie-Aude Torpos
- Musique, images, voix dans les textes de Vernon Lee : une intertextualité transartistique
- Singing Things: The Castrato in Vernon Lee’s Biography of a ‘Culture-Ghost’, by Anthony Teets
- Le Don Juan fidèle dans “La Vierge aux sept poignards” de Vernon Lee, par Alice Mussard
- Anatomical Venuses, Androgynous Boys, or the Renaissance Cassone
- Sensibility, Sensitivity, and Heterotopia in Vernon Lee’s ‘it-narrative’: A Critical Introduction to ‘Biographie d’une Monnaie’(1870), by Anthony Teets and Sophie Geoffroy
- Heurs et malheurs de l’enfance dans les textes de Vernon Lee
- Book Review: A Phantom Lover (William P. Simmons ed., Shadow House Publishing, “Horror Hall of Fame Novellas”, Sept. 2020)
- Corriere Fiorentino
- Review of C. Maxwell and P. Pulham, eds., Vernon Lee, Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics,
- Review of Dalla stanza accanto: Vernon Lee e Firenze settant’anni dopo
- Sieberg & Zorn, The Anglo-German Correspondence of Vernon Lee and Irene Forbes-Mosse during World War I ; Women Writers’ Friendship Transcending Enemy Lines
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- CFP: Vernon Lee Seminar in Paris, March 8, 2016
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- Vernon Lee and Radical Circles: Paris Conference, 17-18-19 october 2013
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