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Vernon Lee (1856–1935)

Autore di The Virgin of the Seven Daggers

88+ opere 711 membri 8 recensioni 11 preferito

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Vernon Lee was born Violet Paget in 1856. Although best remembered for the bewitching ghost stories she wrote between 1881 and 1913, she was also a fervent pacifist who wrote extensively and innovatively on the art of writing and the morality of art itself. She died in 1935
Fonte dell'immagine: Vernon Lee, by John Singer Sargent, 1881. Wikimedia Commons.

Opere di Vernon Lee

The Virgin of the Seven Daggers (1955) — Autore — 136 copie
Hauntings (1906) 71 copie
A Phantom Lover (1997) 35 copie
Miss Brown (1884) 13 copie
The Countess of Albany (2009) 9 copie
Vanitas: Polite Stories (2004) 9 copie
Amour Dure (2014) 7 copie
Limbo and Other Essays (2004) 4 copie
Les épées de l'effroi (1970) 3 copie
Satan the Waster (2020) 3 copie
Marsyas in Flanders (2016) 3 copie
Possessioni 2 copie
Presencias (2023) 2 copie
Embrujada (2019) 2 copie
In Praise of Old Gardens (2010) 2 copie
Music and its Lovers (2018) 1 copia
Sobre el estilo (2022) 1 copia
Hortus Vitae (2017) 1 copia
Otilia 1 copia
Het serpent 1 copia
El Fantasma enamorat (1987) 1 copia
Vital lies 1 copia
A Vernon Lee Anthology (1929) 1 copia

Opere correlate

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (1986) — Collaboratore — 542 copie
Racconti fantastici dell'Ottocento (1983) — Collaboratore — 432 copie
Late Victorian Gothic Tales (2005) — Collaboratore — 188 copie
Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle (1993) — Collaboratore — 184 copie
The Phantom of the Opera and Other Gothic Tales (2018) — Collaboratore — 178 copie
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019) — Collaboratore — 166 copie
The Supernatural Omnibus (1931) — Collaboratore — 141 copie
Five Victorian Ghost Novels (1971) — Collaboratore — 141 copie
The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (1988) — Collaboratore — 134 copie
The Dedalus Book of Decadence (1990) — Collaboratore — 97 copie
Ghost Stories and Other Horrid Tales (1997) — Collaboratore — 62 copie
Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2017) — Collaboratore — 55 copie
The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence the Black Feast (1992) — Collaboratore — 49 copie
The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1970) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
The Screaming Skull and Other Classic Horror Stories (2010) — Collaboratore — 37 copie
Medusa's Daughters (2020) — Collaboratore — 34 copie
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women (1995) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
Venice Stories (2018) — Collaboratore — 25 copie
The Dedalus Book of Femmes Fatales (1992) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
Horror by Lamplight (1993) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
Fifty Masterpieces of Mystery (1937) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
The Religion of Beauty: Selections from the Aesthetes (1950) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Tales of the Undead: Vampires and Visitants (1947) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni9 copie
Klassieke griezelverhalen (1980) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Night | A Lasting Love | Chickamauga — Collaboratore — 1 copia
幻想文学 (63) (2002) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
イギリス怪談集 (河出文庫) (1990) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The Adventure of the Snowing Globe and other stories (1999) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

Etichette

Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Lee, Vernon
Nome legale
Paget, Violet
Data di nascita
1856-10-14
Data di morte
1935-02-13
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
UK
France (birth)
Luogo di nascita
Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Luogo di morte
San Gervasio Bresciano, Italy
Luogo di residenza
Italy
Attività lavorative
essayist
novelist
dramatist
short story writer
pacifist
political activist (mostra tutto 7)
travel writer
Relazioni
James, Henry (friend)
Holdsworth, Annie E (sister-in-law)
Lee-Hamilton, Eugene (half-brother)
Willis, Irene Cooper (companion)
Organizzazioni
Union of Democratic Control
Breve biografia
Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget, born in Boulogne, France to British parents traveling on the continent. She was a half-sister of poet Eugene Lee-Hamilton, from whose name she derived her pseudonym. She was a skilled harpsichord player, and her love of music inspired her first major work, Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy (1880). However, she is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction, which many critics consider the best of the 19th century. She also wrote more than a dozen volumes of essays on art, literary theory, music, and travel. In middle age, she became a supporter of women’s suffrage, a pacifist, and an expert in international relations. As a member of the Union of Democratic Control, she wrote Peace with Honour: Controversial Notes on the Settlement (1915) about the group's proposals for an accord with Germany to end World War I.

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THE DEEP ONES: "Dionea" by Vernon Lee in The Weird Tradition (Gennaio 2022)

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I stumbled into this book when Baileys had a campaign of women authors publishing under a pseudonym. Reclaim her name -campaign offered free e-books and I decided to read this. It was like many gothic stories very descriptive. Not too much happened and from the beginning it was quite clear where it was going. In that sense the story was even boring. However, I found the language quite fascinating and modern.
 
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Lady_Lazarus | 1 altra recensione | Oct 22, 2021 |
CONTENTS: Introduction by David G. Rowlands; Vernon Lee by Irene Cooper Willis; Amour Dure; Dionea; Oke of Okehurst, or, A Phantom Lover; A Wicked Voice; Pope Jacynth; Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady; The Lady and Death; St Eudaemon and his Orange-Tree; A Wedding Chest; The Gods and Ritter Tanhûser; Marsyas in Flanders; The Virgin of the Seven Daggers; Winthrop's Adventure; The Doll; The Legend of Madame Krasinska; Sister Benvenuta and the Christ Child; The Hidden Door; Ravenna and Her Ghosts; Faustus and Helena: The Supernatural in Art.… (altro)
 
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Crypto-Willobie | Apr 18, 2018 |
The young prince Alberic, only and much-neglected heir to his grandfather, the duke of Luna, becomes obsessed with the legend of his medieval ancestor, also called Alberic, and his relationship with the Snake Lady, a fairy trapped in snake form for 23 h a day unless redeemed by true love. Might the immortal fairy still be around? Meanwhile his grandfather's ministers plot and scheme for the day when the younger Alberic shall inherit the duchy.

I rather liked this story, which held some suspense - the ending did surprise me, though it's not particularly a twist - and is told with gentle irony and humour.

The protagonist's name - it may be no accident that it means "Elf-King" - inevitably reminded me of Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter, whose protagonist goes by the variant Alveric. I could believe Dunsany was inspired to use the name by this; there's some kinship in spirit between the tales, although here the supernatural seems to share our familiar world rather than invade from Beyond the Fields We Know.
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AndreasJ | Apr 18, 2018 |
I can't believe I didn't know about Vernon Lee till recently since she is the coolest.
 
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likecymbeline | Apr 1, 2017 |

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Opere
88
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Utenti
711
Popolarità
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Voto
3.8
Recensioni
8
ISBN
194
Lingue
9
Preferito da
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