Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003.
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Friends, Associates | A. Mary F. Robinson | AMFR
and Vernon Lee
attended a tea-party at John Singer Sargent
's London studio. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003. 66 |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | In Nice, Violet Paget (later VL
) and her family met the Fitzwilliam Sargent family. Violet became close to Mrs Mary Sargent
, who fostered her literary ambition and passion for Italy, and to... |
Friends, Associates | F. Mabel Robinson | FMR
shared to the full the social involvement of her family with entertaining leading figures in London cultural life: such men as John Singer Sargent
, Robert Browning
, William Morris
, and Oscar Wilde |
Leisure and Society | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
's friends presented her with her portrait painted by John Singer Sargent
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981. 272 |
Leisure and Society | Vernon Lee | John Singer Sargent
painted her portrait in 1881, looking [a]usterely boyish. Dillon, Brian. “At Tate Britain”. London Review of Books, Vol. 39 , No. 17, 7 Sept. 2017, p. 27. |
Leisure and Society | Lady Cynthia Asquith | LCA
, who was renowned for her beauty, was painted in her youth by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
. She wrote later of his Garden Studio at The Grange in North End Lane, Fulham that its... |
Leisure and Society | Viola Tree | In 1907 John Singer Sargent
did a portrait of VT
which remains today in a private collection. John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery. http://www.jssgallery.org/. under Viola Tree |
Leisure and Society | Angela Thirkell | Three years into this marriage, the future AT
was painted by John Singer Sargent
. The work was thought to be particularly successful because of her strong character as a sitter: her combination of tremulous... |
Publishing | Alice Meynell | She was unhappy that Sargent
's portrait of her was reproduced as the frontispiece, but was otherwise pleased with the book and its sales. It included four previously unpublished essays, two of them on the... |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | Oke of Okehurst, narrated by a painter based in part on VL
's friend John Singer Sargent
,conjures up the ghostly feel of a Jacobean house set in the rainy Kentish, where the... |
Textual Features | Ada Leverson | In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers... |
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