Violet Paget

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Violet Paget, portrait of her childhood friend John Singer Sargent , 1881

Violet Paget , better known under her pseudonym Vernon Lee (born October 14, 1856 in Boulogne-sur-Mer , † February 13, 1935 in San Gervasio Bresciano ) was a British writer and essayist who is best known today for her fantastic literature . Paget is one of Walter Pater's early admirers , and shaped by his influence, she also wrote numerous essays on art, music and travel.

Violet Paget's longtime friends included the painter John Singer Sargent and his sister Emily Sargent, whom Paget had known since childhood. Paget's correspondence with his siblings is an essential source of Sargent's life.

Life

Violet Paget's parents were Henry Ferguson Paget and Matilda Lee-Hamilton, née Abadam. Matilda Lee-Hamilton had settled in France after the death of her first husband, who died shortly after the birth of her son, and there she married her son's tutor, Henry Ferguson Paget. About a year after the marriage, Violet Paget was born in Boulogne, France .

Although Paget wrote primarily for a readership based in Great Britain and visited London numerous times, she spent most of her life in continental Europe, especially in Italy: she lived mostly nearby from 1889 until her death in San Gervasio Bresciano in 1935 from Florence. She only left this place of residence for a long time during the First World War. She left her extensive library to the British Institute in Florence, where this collection is kept to this day. Her close friends included the painter Telemaco Signorini and the art critic Mario Praz . In addition to the Sargent siblings, her close friends also included the American writer Henry James and the writer Irene Forbes-Mosse . She had a homoerotic relationship with Mary Robinson, Kit Anstruther-Thomson and the British writer Amy Levy .

Publications

  • 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), novel
  • 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), novella
  • 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), travel literature
  • 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), Essays
  • 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 Traveler. 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 Twofold Romance (1914), novel
  • The Ballet of the Nations. A Present-Day Morality (1915), with drawings by Maxwell Armfield
  • Satan the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy (1920)
  • Proteus or The Future Of Intelligence (1925)
  • The Golden Keys (1925), essays
  • 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)

German-language editions

  • Genius Loci (translated into German by Irene Forbes-Mosse ). Eugen Diederichs, Jena and Leipzig 1905.
  • Ariadne in Mantua. Five romantic scenes . Authorized translation from English by Else Schulhoff . Berlin, S. Fischer Verlag 1909.
  • Amour dure. Eerie tales . DuMont Buchverlag Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7701-2568-1 .
  • Our Lady of the Seven Daggers / The Virgin of the Seven Daggers . Calambac Verlag, Saarbrücken 2017, bilingual edition: German / English, ISBN 978-3-943117-92-9 .

literature

  • Stanley Olson: John Singer Sargent - His Portrait . MacMillan, London 1986, ISBN 0-333-29167-0 .

Single receipts

  1. ^ Everett Franklin Bleiler : Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror . New York: Scribner's, 1985; ISBN 0-684-17808-7 , pp. 329-336
  2. ^ Stanley Olson: John Singer Sargent - His Portrait . MacMillan, London 1986, ISBN 0-333-29167-0 , p. 13.
  3. ^ "Vernon Lee" Dialogue Talk.
  4. ^ The Anglo-German Correspondence of Vernon Lee and Irene Forbes-Mosse during World War I ; Edited by Herward Sieberg and Christa Zorn. With a Foreword by Phyllis Mannocchi, Lewis / Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2014
  5. ↑ Vernon, Mark: You have to be kind to be cruel . In: Society . New Statesman. September 6, 2010. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Paget, Violet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lee, Vernon (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-sur-Mer
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1935
Place of death San Gervasio Bresciano