Vernon Lee’s Relatives, Friends, Acquaintances

Vernon Lee’s Relatives, Friends, Acquaintances

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Names Referred to in her Correspondence

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A

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)

G

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.

I

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

K

Kavanagh, Julia

Kingsley, Miss (“Lucas Malet”)

Kipling, Rudyard

L

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)

N

Nencioni, Enrico

Nevill, Lady Dorothy

Newton, Charles Thomas

Nichols, Bourges

Nordau, Max

Noufflard, André

Noufflard, Berthe (née Langweil)

O

Oliphant, Margaret

Orr, Alexandra (Mrs. Sutherland)

“Ouida” (Louise de la Ramée)

Oxford, Margaret, Countess of

P

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

T

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

U

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

Y

Young, Miss

Young, Lady & family

Zimmern, Alice

Zimmern, Helen

1 Response to Vernon Lee’s Relatives, Friends, Acquaintances

  1. 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

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