Vernon Lee’s Relatives, Friends, Acquaintances
and
Names Referred to in her Correspondence
Work in Progress: Thank you for your updates and corrections!
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Abadam, Alice
Abadam, Conrad
Abadam, Adah
Adams, Matilda
Agnew, Lady
Aïdé, Hamilton
Aislie, Blanche Lady
Allon, Henry
Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence, R. A.
Alma-Tadema, Louise
Anstruther-Thomson, Clementina (“Kit”)
Anstruther-Thomson, Olive
Arbuthnot, Mrs
Armfield, Maxwell
Arnold, Matthew
B
Barbera, Piero
Baring, Maurice
Barrington, Mrs Russell
Barstow, Nina
Barzelotti, Giacomo
Basinghard, Sarah
Battersea, Lady
Beardsley, Aubrey
Beaumont, Somerset
Beckford, William
Beerbohm, Max
Benn, Alfred William
Benson, Archbishop and Mrs
Berenson, Bernhard
Berenson, Mrs (Mary Costelloe)
Bevington, Louisa
Bishop (medium)
Black, Clementina
Black, Grace
Blackwood, William
Blanc, Charles
Blanchecotte, Augustine-Malvina
Blind, Karl
Blind, Mathilde
Blind, Rudolf
Bourget, Paul
Boutourline, Peter
Bradley, Katherine (“Michael Field”)
Brentano, Lujo
Brown, Horatio
Brown, Ford Madox
Browning, Robert
Browning, Sarianna
Brooke, Margaret, Ranee of Sarawak
Broughton, Rhoda
Brunetière
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
Bulwer-Lytton, Constance
Bunting, Percy
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward
Burne-Jones, Sir Philip
Burns, John
Burton, Sir Frederick
Burton, Isabel Lady
C
Cadell, Jessie
Cadell, John Francis
Cahen, Christina Spartali, Countess of
Caldecott, Marian
Caldecott, Randolph
Callander, Alice
Callwell, Anette (Mrs Wymarch Hooper)
Campbell, Lord and Lady Archibald
Campbell, Lord and Lady Colin
Campbell, Lewis
Capocci, Gaetano
Carlyle, Thomas
Carpenter, William
Cash family
Cecconi, Eugenio
Cecil, Lady Gwendolen
Chamberlain, Joseph
Champion (socialist orator)
Chapman, Miss
Chastel de Boinville, Harriet
Churchill, Lord and Lady Randolph
Clapperton, Miss
Clerke family
Clerke, Agnes
Clerke, Ellen
Clermont, comte de
Clifford, Mrs W K
Clifford, Ethel
Cifford, Lucy Jane
Clodd family
Cobbe, Frances Power
Cobden, Margaret
Cobden, Lucy Elizabeth
Cobden-Sanderson, J. and Annie
Collier, Colonel and Mrs
Collins, Wilkie
Comyns Carr, Joseph
Conrad, Joseph
Cook, Keningale
Cooper, Edith (“Michael Field”)
Coppée, François
Coquelin Benoît-Constant
Costelloe, Mary Smith (later Mrs B. Berenson)
Cotton, Isabella
Cotton, James Sutherland
Craigie-Halkett, Elizabeth
Craik, Dinah (Miss Mullock)
Crawford, Oswald
Creighton, Bishop & Mrs
Cropper, Mrs.
Cultwell, Miss Maud
Cunningham, Graham
Currie, Philip Lord
Curtis, Mr. and Mrs.
D
Daniel, C. H. O.
D’Annunzio, Gabriele
Darmsteter, James
De Amicis, Edmondo
De Cahen: see Spartali family
De Cargouët, Charles
De Cargouët, Charles (Carlot)
De Cargouët, Jeanne (Bichette)
De Cargouët, Marcelle
De Cargouët, Pauline
De Cargouët, Theophile
De Gubernatis, Angelo
De Gubernatis, Sophia
De Hoghten, Lady & family
De la Motte (Lamotte), Alfred
De la Motte (Lamotte), Alice
De Morgan, Mary
De Morgan, Sophia Frend
De Morgan, William
De Morgan, William (for Mrs. see Pickering, Evelyn)
Del Castillo, Benjamin
Delzant, Gabrielle
Desjardins, Paul
Dicksee, Sir Franck
Dickinson family
Dickson, Bennie, Madeline
Dickson, Eliza
Dickson, Guy
Dickson, John
Dickson, Lallah
Dilke, Charles Wentworth
Dinesen, Isak
Dobson, Austin
Dodge, Mary Mapes
Douglas, David
Duclaux, Emile
Duffy, Arabella (Bella)
Duveneck, Franck
E
Eliot, George
Ellis, Frederick Startridge
Empress Eugénie
Escott, Thomas
Eugénie, Empress of France
F
Fanfani, Pietro
Farina, Flavia Cini
Faucit, Helena
Fawcett, Henry
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett
Fenzi, Sebastiano
“Field Michael” (Katherine Bradley / Edith Cooper)
Fisher, Mary
Fisher, Richard
Fitzgerald, Penelope
Flash, Dr. Adam
Fleeming-Jenkin, Mrs.
Forbes-Mosse, Irene
Forbes-Robertson, Frances
Forbes-Robertson, Johnston
Forbes-Robertson, Norman
Ford, Emily
Ford, Hannah
Ford, Isabella
Foster, Jane Martha
France, Anatole
Frascheri, Annette (née Bracken)
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Gamba, Countess Maria
Garnett, Richard
Gaskell, Elizabeth
George, Henry
Gimenez, José Fernandez
Gleichen, Countess Feodor
Gortchakoff, Prince Alexander
Gortchakoff, Princess (née Stourdza)
Gosse, sir Edmund
Graham, William
Grant, Charles
Green, Mrs John Richard
Greenough, Miss
Grey, Lady de (Marchioness of Ripon)
Groos, Karl
Grosvenor, Mrs Norman
Gurney, Edmund
H
Halévy, Daniel
Halévy, Elie
Halévy, Ludovic
Hancock, Mrs.
Hardy, Thomas
Harland, Henry
Harris, “Franck”
Harrison, Frederick
Hauwers, the Rev. H R
Haweis, Hugh
Hay family
Henley, William
Herbert family
Heskomer, Sir Hubert von
Hillebrand, Jessie
Hillebrand, Karl
Hildebrand, Adolf von
Holdsworth, Annie (later Lee-Hamilton)
Holiday, Henry
Holman-Hunt, William
Hooper, Mrs Wymarsh see also Callwell Annette
Houghton, Lord
Hueffer, Francis
Hughes, Adah Abadam
Huish, Marcus
Hunt, Violet
Huth, Augusta
Huxley, Aldous
Huxley, Thomas
Hyndman, H. M.
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Irving, Sir Henry
J
James, Henry
James, William
Jameson, Anna Brownell
Jasminham, H. E. H.
Jaune, Lady (Lady St Halier)
Jenkin, Capt. Charles
Jenkin, Henrietta
Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming
Jenkin, Mrs Fleeming (Anne Austin)
Jopling-Rowe, Mrs. Louise
Judic, Anna
Jump, Mary
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Kavanagh, Julia
Kingsley, Miss (“Lucas Malet”)
Kipling, Rudyard
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Landor, Walter Savage
Lane, John
Lang, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Langford, Joseph
Lange, Carl
Lankester, Sir E. Ray
Layard, Sir Henry & Lady
Lee-Hamilton, Eugene
Leigh Hunt, James Henry
Leighton, Sir Frederick
Lemon, Arthur
Levy, Amy
Lewes, George Henry
Lewis Campbell family
Linton, Mrs Eliza Lynn
Lytton, Lady
M
MacCarthy, Charlotte
MacCarthy, Desmond
MacCarthy, Justin
MacColl, Norman
Mackail, John
Mackenzie, Miss Muir
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander
MacLean, Thomas
Macmillan, Frederick
Madox Brown, Ford
Madox Brown, Oliver
Malet, Lucas (Mary St Leger Kingsley)
Mallock, William
Marshall, Julian
Marshall, Sir James & Lady
Marston, John
Marston, Philip Bourke
Mason, Miss
Melegari, Dora
Meredith, George
Meyer, Annie
Meyer, John
Meyer, Paul
Middlemore, family
Middlemore, Nena (née Sturgis)
Middlemore, Samuel George
Minghetti, Donna Laura
Monkhouse, W. Cosmo & Mrs.
Montebello, Mme de
Moore, George
Moreau, Gustave
Morris, Jane (née Burden)
Morris, Lewis
Morris William
Morrison, J. Cotter
Mount Temple, Lady
Müller family
Müller, Friedrich Max
Myers, Frederic
Myers, Mrs. F. W. H. (Eveleen Tennant)
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Nencioni, Enrico
Nevill, Lady Dorothy
Newton, Charles Thomas
Nichols, Bourges
Nordau, Max
Noufflard, André
Noufflard, Berthe (née Langweil)
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Oliphant, Margaret
Orr, Alexandra (Mrs. Sutherland)
“Ouida” (Louise de la Ramée)
Oxford, Margaret, Countess of
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Paget, Henry
Paget, Mathilda
Pannier family
Papafava, Count
Pasolini family
Pater, Clara
Pater, Hester
Pater, Walter
Pennell, Joseph
Peto family
Petrie, Flinders
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
Phillimore, Catherine
Pickering, Evelyn (Mrs. Wm. de Morgan)
Placci, Carlo
Playfair, Lady
Pollock, Lady Juliet
Pollock, Sir Frederick
Pollock, Walter
Ponsonby, Lady
Poynter, Eleanor
Pratesi, Mario
Praz, Mario
Price, family of Dr Bartholomew (Master of Pembroke College, Oxford)
Price, Miss Mable
Protonotari, Francesco
Q
Quilter, Harry
R
Raffalovitch Mark André
Ramée, Louise de la (“Ouida”)
Ramsay, Claudia Hamilton
Rawlinson, Mrs.
Read, Melle
Redmond, Mrs
Resse, Count Pio
Resse, Countess Elizabeth Woodbridge
Ribot, Theodule
Richmond, Sir W. B, R. A., & Lady
Ristori, Adelaide
Rivière, Henri
Robinson, Agnes Mary Frances (later Mrs. James Darmstetter, later Mme Duclaux)
Robinson, Frances
Robinson, George
Robinson, Mabel
Rilchie, M. & Mrs. Richmond
Rolland, Romain
Rollinat, Maurice
Rosny, M.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, Olive
Rossetti, Lucy (Emma)
Rossetti, William
Ruffini, Giovanni & Mrs
Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand
S
Saint-Helier, Lady (Lady Jeune)
Sala, J. A.
Sand, George
Santarelli, Emilio
Santarelli, Sofia
Sargent, Emily
Sargent, FitzWilliam
Sargent, John Singer
Satchell, Thomas
Satchell, William
Schüpbach, Marie
Schuster, Mrs
Scott, Mrs
Seed, D.
Sellar, Eleanor
Sellar, Florence
Sellar, William
Sellers, Eugénie (Mrs Arthur Strong)
Serao, Matilde
Sermoneta, Duke of
Sharp, Elizabeth
Sharp, Jeanie
Sharp, William
Shaw, Bernard
Shorthouse, J. H.
Shrewsbury, Countess of
Sibley, Kate Sara
Siddons, Sarah
Sidgwick, Arthur,
Sidgwick, Henry
Signorini, Telemaco
Simcox, Miss
Singleton, Mrs.
Sinnett, Alfred
Smedley, Constance (later Armfield)
Smillie family
Smillie, Jeanie
Smith, Miss Clementi
Smith Pearsall family
Smyth, Dame Ethel
Spaletti, Contessa
Spartali family: see Stillman
Spartali, Marie (Mrs Stillman)
Stanhope, Elizabeth
Stanhope, John
Stanhope, Lady Hester
Stephen, Leslie
Stepniak
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stillman, William
Stillman, Marie Spartali
Stillman, Bella (Mrs. J. H. Middleton)
Stisted, Elizabeth
Stock, Elliot
Story, W. W.
Strahan, Alexander
Strangford Lady
Sturdza, Princess Maria
Sturgis, Julian
Sturgis, Maria (Nena)
Swanley, Lady (Dorothy Tennant)
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Symonds, John Addington
Symonds, Margaret Madge
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Taine, Hippolyte
Taylor, Mona
Teck, Princess Mary Adelaide
Tennant, Charles & Mrs & daughters Mrs. Myers & Lady Stanley)
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Terry, Ellen
Thackeray, Anne Isabella
Thaddeus, Jones Harry
Thomas, Bertha
Thomson, James
Thomson, Miss Rosie
Thomson, Mrs Graham
Thornycroft, Hamo, R. A.
Toole, John Lawrence
Tucker, Miss Mildred
Tulloch, John
Turner, Alfred
Turner, Cornelia
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Unwin, Thomas Fisher
V
Vaughan, Kate
Valey, (Velly) Marguerite
Villari, Linda
Villari, Pasquale
Vizetelly, Ernest
Vizetelly, Henry
Von Glenh, Mrs
Vuillet, A.
W
Wagner, Richard
Wakefield, Mary
Ward, Henry
Ward, Mary
Ward, Thomas Humphrey
Ward, T.H. (Mrs.)
Waser, Maria
Watts, George Frederick
Watts, Theodore
Watts-Dunton, F.
Watson, William
Webster, Augusta
Webster, John
Wedgwood, Julia
Welby, Lady
Wharton, Edith
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
White, David
White, Maude Valerie
Whyte-Melville, George
Wilde, Oscar
Willis, Irene Cooper
Wilson, Heath
Wimbush, Evelyn
Wolseley, F. M. Viscount & Viscountess
Woods, Rev. Henry
Woods, Mrs Margaret C
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Young, Miss
Young, Lady & family
Zimmern, Alice
Zimmern, Helen
Olive Schreiner needs to be on this list of Lee’s acquaintance: Schreiner greatly admired her pacifism.
See for example:
https://www.oliveschreiner.org/vre?view=collections&colid=124&letterid=1