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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856 - 1935 - Volume I, 1865-1884 (Hardcover)
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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856 - 1935 - Volume I, 1865-1884 (Hardcover)
Series: The Pickering Masters
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Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget (1856-1935) - a
prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her
support of the Aesthetic Movement and her radical polemics. She was
also an active letter writer whose correspondents include many
well-known figures in fin de siecle intellectual circles across
Europe. However, until now no attempt has been made to make these
letters widely available in their complete form. This multi-volume
scholarly edition presents a comprehensive selection of her
English, French, Italian, and German correspondence - compiled from
more than 30 archives worldwide - that reflect her wide variety of
interests and occupations as a Woman of Letters and contributor to
scholarship and political activism. Letters written in a language
other than English have been expertly translated by scholars Sophie
Geoffroy (from the French), Crystal Hall (from the Italian), and
Christa Zorn (from the German). The edition focuses on those
letters concerning the writing, ideas and aesthetics that
influenced Lee's articles, books and stories. Full transcriptions
of some 500 letters, covering the years 1856-1935, are arranged in
chronological order along with a newly written introduction that
explains their context and identifies the recipients, friends and
colleagues mentioned. Since scholarship on Lee's critical and
creative output is still in the beginning stages, these letters
will serve a purpose to students and researchers in a number of
academic fields. In this first volume, tracing the years 1856-
1884, the assembled letters cover the beginnings of her career,
encompassing her first publication, visits to London and encounters
with some of the important artistic figures of the time. As her
career begins to blossom, the letters also reflect the expansion of
her subject matter from cultural studies and art history to novels
and aesthetic philosophy. Correspondents include Lee's parents,
Matilda and Henry Paget; her brother the poet Eugene Lee-Hamilton;
English poet Mary Robinson; English authors Henrietta Jenkin and
Linda Villari; and Italian writers Enrico Nencioni, Mario Pratesi,
and Angelo De Gubernatis, among others.
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