Vernon Lee

Vernon Lee

Foto de Lee arredor de 1870.
Biografía
Nacemento	(en) Violet Paget 14 de outubro de 1856 Boulogne-sur-Mer
Morte	13 de febreiro de 1935 Florencia
Causa da morte	Doenza
Lugar de sepultura	Cimitero Evangelico agli Allori (en)
Datos persoais
Residencia	Indonesia (1873–)
País de nacionalidade	Reino Unido
Actividade
Campo de traballo	Ensaio
Ocupación	poeta , historiador da arte , escritora , crítico de arte , ensaísta , novelista , filósofa
Xénero artístico	Narrativa
Influencias	Walter Pater (pt)
Pseudónimo literario	Vernon Lee
Lingua	Lingua inglesa

Violet Paget, coñecida literariamente como Vernon Lee, nada en Boulogne-sur-Mer o 14 de outubro de 1856 e finada en Florencia o 13 de febreiro de 1935, foi unha escritora de orixe británica.

Traxectoria

Retrato de Vernon Lee realizado por John Singer Sargent.

Viviu na época vitoriana, feito que se manifesta na súa escrita. O seu vínculo con Italia foi fondo, pois viviu en Florencia a maior parte da súa vida e escribiu ensaios de peso sobre a cultura renacentista. Foi amiga de importante figuras da cultura do momento, tales que Robert Browning, Walter Pater, George Bernard Shaw ou Edith Wharton.

Obra

• Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy (1880)
• Ottilie: An Eighteenth Century Idyl (1883)
• The Prince of the Hundred Soups: A Puppet Show in Narrative (1883)
• Belcaro, Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions (1883)
• The Countess of Albany (1884)
• Miss Brown (1884)
• Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance (1884)
• Baldwin: Being Dialogues on Views and Aspirations (1886)
• Un amante fantasma (A Phantom Lover: A Fantastic Story) (1886)
• Juvenilia, Being a second series of essays on sundry aesthetical questions (1887)
• Hauntings. Fantastic Stories (1890)
• Vanitas: Polite Stories (1892).
• Althea: Dialogues on Aspirations & Duties (1894)
• Renaissance Fancies And Studies Being A Sequel To Euphorion (1895)
• Art and Life (1896)
• Limbo and Other Essays (1897)
• Genius Loci (1899)
• The Child In The Vatican (1900)
• In Umbria: A Study of Artistic Personality (1901)
• Chapelmaster Kreisler A Study of Musical Romanticists (1901)
• Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh Coast in the Eighteenth Century (1903)
• The Legend of Madame Krasinska (1903)
• Ariadne in Mantua: a Romance in Five Acts (1903)
• Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of life (1904)
• Pope Jacynth - And Other Fantastic Tales (1904)
• The Enchanted Woods (1905)
• The Handling of Words and Other Studies in Literary Psychology (1906)
• Sister Benvenuta and the Christ Child, an eighteenth-century legend (1906)
• The Spirit of Rome (1906)
• Ravenna and Her Ghosts (1907)
• The Sentimental Traveller . Notes on Places (1908)
• Gospels of Anarchy & Other Contemporary Studies (1908)
• Laurus Nobili: Chapters on Art and Life (1909)
• In Praise of Old Gardens (1912)
• Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism ( 1912)
• The Beautiful. An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics (1913)
• The Tower of the Mirrors and Other Essays on the Spirit of Places (1914)
• Louis Norbert. A Two-fold Romance (1914)
• The Ballet of the Nations. A Present-Day Morality (1915)
• Satan the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy (1920)
• Proteus or The Future Of Intelligence (1925)
• The Golden Keys (1925)
• The Poet's Eye (Hogarth Press, 1926)
• For Maurice. Five Unlikely Stories (1927)
• Music and its Lovers (1932)
• Snake Lady and Other Stories (1954)
• Supernatural Tales (1955)
• The Virgin of the Seven Daggers - And Other Chilling Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1962)

Véxase tamén

Bibliografía

• Colby, Vineta (2003). University of Virginia Press, ed. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-2158-7. 
• Gardner, Burdett (1987). Garland, ed. The Lesbian Imagination (Victorian style): A psychological and critical study of "Vernon Lee". Nova York. ISBN 978-0-8240-0059-2.