Vineta Colby

Standard Name: Colby, Vineta

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Cultural formation	Vernon Lee	As early as 24 August 1887VL was calling Kit her new love, or new life (adapting the title of a poem which had been written for Lee by Amy Levy ). Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000. 148 The two...
Cultural formation	Vernon Lee	In her biography of Lee, Vineta Colby repeats longstanding judgments about the author's sexuality by emphasizing that she made no effort to conceal her attachments to women, Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003. 335 but was hesitant about—even repelled by—sexual intimacy...
Family and Intimate relationships	A. Mary F. Robinson	AMFR married James Darmesteter after a brief courtship; it was said that she had proposed to him, in August 1887, shortly after their first meeting at the British Museum . Sources disagree on the date...
Family and Intimate relationships	Vernon Lee	VL 's mother, Matilda (Adams) Paget , was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales in 1815; she was one of four children of Sarah Adams , who had lived for a time in Philadelphia, and Edward Hamlin Adams
Fictionalization	Eliza Lynn Linton	In 1878, ELL wrote to a relative, True success comes only by hard work, great courage in self-correction, and the most earnest and intense determination to succeed, not thinking that every endeavour is already success...
Intertextuality and Influence	Vernon Lee	VL 's supernatural stories are concerned with the spiritual essences of places and past cultures, often represented through the reappearances of classical goddesses and gods, or comparatively lesser-known Renaissance and eighteenth-century figures. Vineta Colby finds...
Literary responses	Henrietta Camilla Jenkin	The Saturday Review called Once and Again a great advance upon any previous effort of the writer's. qtd. in Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols. The young Vernon Lee praised this novel enthusiastically in an Italian article published in La Rivista in October...
Literary responses	Margaret Oliphant	The work has been consistently admired. On its appearance the editor of The Spectator praised it for wonderful mastery of the borderland of the natural and the supernatural, qtd. in Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996. 159: 256 and said it demonstrated MO
Literary responses	Vernon Lee	Lee's work had a highly mixed reception. It was praised by Pater: in a footnote added to the third edition of his Renaissance, he calls Euphoriona work abounding in knowledge and insights on...
Literary responses	Vernon Lee	Shortly after the publication of this book she sent a copy to Robert Browning , assuming he would appreciate the admiration she expresses for his poetry (The Ring and the Book). In June...
Literary responses	Mary Cholmondeley	Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC to Charlotte Brontë or George Eliot ; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. qtd. in Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol. 20 , No. 2, Apr. 1970, pp. 213-28. 214 An Edinburgh Review article written in 1900 praised Red Pottage in...
Literary responses	Mary Cholmondeley	None of these later novels achieved the success of Red Pottage. Critic Vineta Colby writes that MC 's last novels invited the neglect they received from critics and public alike, because of their extreme...
Literary responses	Vernon Lee	Lee's publication was panned in the Times Literary Supplement, but found strong support from Desmond MacCarthy , writing as Affable Hawk in the New Statesman, and from G. B. Shaw in the Nation...
politics	Vernon Lee	Vineta Colby describes VL 's politics as liberal with socialist leanings. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003. 272 Lee disagreed with the Liberal government's refusal to grant women the vote: she supported suffrage but disapproved of militancy. Gunn, Peter. Vernon Lee: Violet Paget, 1856-1935. Oxford University Press, 1964. 202 Her views on...
Author summary	Vernon Lee	VL 's writing career spanned more than five decades during the later the nineteenth century and the earlier twentieth. She wrote critical monographs, essays, and reviews (on aesthetics, politics, and history), as well as short...

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Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol.

, No. 2, pp. 213-28.

Colby, Vineta, and Robert Alan Colby. The Equivocal Virtue. Archon Books, 1966.

Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press, 1970.

Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Colby, Vineta. Yesterday’s Woman: Domestic Realism in the English Novel. Princeton University Press, 1974.