Vernon Lee

Vernon Lee
Retrato de Vernon Lee.

Vernon Lee, seudónimo de Violet Paget {n. 1856 en Château St Leonard, Boulogne, Francia; † 1935 en Florencia, Italia} fue una escritora británica, reconocida actualmente por sus trabajos sobre ficción sobrenatural, también cultivó la novela y el relato, el libro de viajes, el estudio del arte y la música italiana, el ensayo sobre estética y también la polémica.

Aun cuando se estableció en Londres, vivió casi toda su vida en Florencia. Toda su obra, cuarenta volúmenes, gira en torno a la vida y la cultura de este país donde se codeó con las principales figuras literarias inglesas del siglo XIX: Robert Browning, Walter Pater, G.B.Shaw, Whistler, 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)
  • 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). Un relato de esta colección, «Lady Tal» se encuentra, precedido de nota biográfica, en la pág. 151 ss de la antología Cuando se abrió la puerta. Cuentos de la Nueva Mujer (1882-1914), Alba Editorial, Clasica maior, 2008, ISBN 978-84-8428-418-5.
  • 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)

Bibliografía

  • Vernon Lee, La voz maligna, Ediciones Atalanta: Girona, 2006. ISBN 84-934625-6-X
  • Vernon Lee, Els déus i el cavaller Tanhûser, Editorial Laertes: Barcelona, 1996. ISBN 84-7584-306-9

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