The Sibyl
No I : Spring 2007
This bibliography is to
be seen as a work in progress, which can and will be completed thanks to our
readers’ information and suggestions. It
is classified by subject, and each subject can be reached by clicking the
in the Table below.
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I. Primary Texts by Vernon Lee |
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i. Correspondence |
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ii. Theatre |
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iii. Fiction |
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a. Books |
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b. Individual
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iv. Non fiction |
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II. Reception of Vernon Lee |
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Translations and critical editions |
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ii. Adaptations |
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iii. Modern collections |
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iv. Critical studies and biographies: Vernon
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a. Books |
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b. Articles |
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III. Related subjects, authors, anthologies,
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IV. PhD Theses |
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V. Master dissertations |
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VI. Websites: conferences, critical studies,
institutions, Vernon Lee’s texts online… |
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i. Vernon Lee’s texts online |
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ii. Vernon Lee bibliography: anthologies
containing stories by Vernon Lee |
Irene Cooper Willis
(ed.). Vernon Lee’s Letters. London:
Privately Printed, 1937.
Lee, Vernon. The Prince of the Hundred Soups. London:
T. Fisher Unwin, 1883. [Even though she attributes it to one Ernst
Theodor Wesendonk² (alias Mangia Zucchero: Eat-Sugar), this puppet show in
narrative is a truly Leeian artefact].
o For the
articles that appear on this book in The Sibyl (no 1, Spring 2007) see the Table of
Contents
Lee, Vernon. Ariadne in Mantua: A Romance in 5 Acts.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1903.
Tuscan Fairy Tales (Taken Down from the Mouths of the
People). London: W. Satchell,
1880. (Published anonymously.)
Lee, Vernon. Ottilie: an Eighteenth Century Idyll.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1883.
Lee, Vernon. The Countess of Albany. London: W. H.
Allen, 1884.
Lee, Vernon. Miss Brown. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1884.
Lee, Vernon. A Phantom Lover: A Fantastic Story.
Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1886; Boston: Robert Brothers, 1886; Rpt., unaltered, as
“Oke of Okehurst” in Hauntings.
Lee, Vernon. Hauntings: Fantastic Stories. 1889.
London: Heinemann, 1890. Bodley Head, 1906. (Contents: “Amour Dure,” “Dionea,”
“Oke of Okehurst,” “A Wicked Voice”).
Lee, Vernon. Vanitas: Polite Stories. London:
Heinemann, 1892. New York: Lovell Coryell, ca. 1892 (1 fantastic story: “The
Legend of Madame Krasinska”).
Lee, Vernon. Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh
Coast. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903.
Lee, Vernon. Pope Jacynth and Other Fantastic Tales.
London: Grant Richards, 1904. New York: John Lane, 1907.
Lee, Vernon. Sister Benvenuta and the Christ Child: an
Eighteenth Century Legend. London: Grant Richards, 1906. New York: M.
Kennerly, ca. 1906.
Lee, Vernon. Louis Norbert: A Two-Fold Romance.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914.
Lee, Vernon. For Maurice: Five Unlikely Stories.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1927. (Includes “Tanhaüser and the Gods”,
“Marsyas in Flanders”, “The Virgin of the Seven Daggers”, “The Doll”,
“Winthrop’s Adventure”).
A Vernon Lee Anthology. London: John Lane, 1929.
Lee, Vernon. The Snake Lady and Other Stories.
Introd. by Horace Gregory (ed.). New York: Grove Press, 1954.
Lee, Vernon. Supernatural Tales: Excursions into Fantasy.
London: Peter Owen, 1955.
Lee, Vernon. Pope Jacynth, and More Supernatural Tales.
London: Peter Owen, 1956.
Vernon Lee :
Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales, Patricia Pulham & Catherine Maxwell (eds.), Broadview
Press, 2005.
The Yellow Book. A Quarterly. 13 vols. 1894-1897. Eds. Henry Harland and Aubrey
Beardsley. London: John Lane.
“Pictor Sacrilegus.” Contemporary Review, 60 (1891): 188-206,
372-387. Reprinted in Renaissance Studies
and Fancies. London: Smith, Elder, 1895.
“Lady Tal”. In Vanitas: Polite Stories. London: William
Heinemann, 1892, 7-19. Rpt. In Showalter, Elaine (ed.). Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-siècle. London:
Virago, 1993. 192-261.
“Ravenna and her
Ghosts.” Macmillan's, 70 (1894):
380-389. Reprinted in the second edition of Limbo
and Other Essays. London: Grant Richards, 1908.
“Dionysus in the Euganean
Hills. W. H. Pater In Memoriam”, The
Contemporary Review 120 (September 1921): 346-53.
“The House with the
Loop-Holes,” Life and Letters, Aug.
1930.
“A Culture
Ghost: Or, Winthrop’s Adventure.” In Fraser’s
Magazine, January 1881:1-29; rpt. in Appleton’s
Journal, N° 10 (1881): 330-45; Rpt. In For
Maurice: Five Unlikely Stories. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1927
(title: “Winthrop’s Adventure; an Eighteenth Century Singer”).
“Voix
maudite.” (Originally in French). In Les
Lettres et les arts. Août 1887, 125-53. Rpt. In [Vernon Lee], Au pays de Vénus. Paris: Dentu, 1894.
“The Virgin
of the Seven Daggers », in For Maurice:
Five Unlikely Stories, London: John Lane, 1927.
Vernon Lee,
“The Doll » (1899; publ. in For Maurice, 1927).
“A Wicked
Voice.” (Slightly different from the French version). In Hauntings: Fantastic Stories. London: Heinemann, 1890. 195-237.
“An Eighteenth-Century Singer, an Imaginary
Portrait.” The Fortnightly Review 1 Dec. 1891: 842-80.
“A Seeker of Pagan Perfection. Being the Life
of Domenico Neroni, Pictor Sacrilegus.” The
Contemporary Review, 60 (1891): 188-206, 372-387. Rpt. in Renaissance Fancies and Studies, London:
Smith, Elder, 1895; Rpt. In The Snake Lady and Other Stories, Horace
Gregory (ed.), 1956.
“Ravenna and
her Ghosts”. Macmillan’s, 70 (1894):
380-89. Rpt. In the 2nd ed. of Limbo
and Other Essays. London: Grant Richards, 1908.
“Prince
Alberic and the Snake Lady”, The Yellow
Book, X, July 1896, 289-344.
“The Lines of
Anglo-German Agreement”. The Nation
VII (10 September 1910), supplement between pp. 838-839.
“Vicarious
Tragedy”. The Nation XI (29 June
1912): 466-7.
“Angels Fear
to Tread”. The Nation XI (7 September
1912): 828-9.
“The Sense of
Nationality”. The Nation XII (12 October
1912): 96-8.
“The Policy
of the Allies”. The Nation XVI (2
February 1915): 649-50.
“Bismarck
Towers”. The New Statesman IV (20
February 1915): 481-3.
“Militarists
against Militarism”. Labour Leader
XII, no. 13 (1 April 1915): 3.
“May Day
Messages for British Women”. Labour
Leader XII, no. 17 (29 April 1915): 5.
“Après la
Mêlée”. The New Statesman V (19 June
1915): 249-51.
“The Wish for
Unanimity and the Willingness for War, France-Italy, 1911-13”. [written before
August 1914]. The Cambridge Magazine
IV (12 June 1915): 482, 484.
“War the
Grave of All Good”. Labour Leader
XII, no. 43 (28 October 1915): 3.
“Enmity”. War and Peace III, no. 25 (October
1915): 11-12.
“The Heart of
a Neutral”. The Atlantic Monthly CXVI
(November 1915): 687.
“The Virgin
of the Seven Daggers.” In The English
Review. January-February 1909. Rpt. In For
Maurice: Five Unlikely Stories, London : John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1927.
“Letter to the Editor”. The Nation XV (22 August 1914): 766-7.
“Introduction”. Mnemic Psychology. By Richard Semon. Transl. B. Duffy. New York:
Macmillan, 1923. 11-53.
“Introduction”. Art and Man: Essays and Fragments. By
Clementina Anstruther-Thomson. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1924.
“The House with the Loop-Holes”, Life and Letters, Aug. 1930.
“The Handling of Words: A
Page of Walter Pater”. Life and Letters
9: 50 (Sept-Nov 1933): 287-310.
Lee, Vernon. Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy,
London: W. Satchel, 1880. (2nd ed. 1887). Rpt. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907.
Rpt. New York : Da Capo Press, 1978.
Lee, Vernon. Belcaro: Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical
Questions. London: W. Satchell, 1881.
Lee, Vernon. Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and
the Medieval in the Renaissance. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1884.
Lee, Vernon. Baldwin. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1886.
Lee, Vernon. Juvenilia. London: T. Fisher Unwin,
1887.
Lee, Vernon. Althea: A Second Book of Dialogues on
Aspirations and Duties. London: Osgood, McIlvaine, 1894. [Includes “Orpheus
in Rome]
Lee, Vernon. Renaissance Fancies and Studies. London:
Smith, Elder & Co., 1895.
Lee, Vernon. Limbo and Other Essays. London: Grant
Richards, 1897.
Lee, Vernon. Genius Loci: Notes on Places. London:
Grant Richards, 1899.
Lee, Vernon. Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of
Life. London: Bodley Head, 1904. [Includes “Puzzles of the Past”]
Lee, Vernon. The Enchanted Woods and Other Essays.
London: John Lane, 1905.
Lee, Vernon. The Spirit of Rome. London: John Lane,
1906.
Lee, Vernon. The Sentimental Traveller. London: John
Lane, 1908.
Lee, Vernon. Gospels of Anarchy and Other Contemporary
Studies. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. [Includes “The Deterioration
of the Soul”, “The Economic Parasitism of Women” LIEN
VERS CE TEXTE]
Lee, Vernon. Limbo and Other Essays, to Which is Now
Added Ariadne in Mantua. London: Bodley Head, 1908.
Lee, Vernon. Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life.
London: Bodley Head, 1909. [Includes “The Use of Beauty”, “Beauty and Sanity”]
Lee, Vernon. Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of
Recent Obscurantism. London: John Lane, 1912.
Lee, Vernon and
Clementina Anstruther-Thomson. Beauty and
Ugliness. London: John Lane, 1912.
Lee, Vernon. The Beautiful; A Introduction to
Psychological Aesthetics. Cambridge: the University Press, 1913.
Lee, Vernon. The Tower of the Mirrors and Other Essays on the Spirit
of Places. London:
John Lane, 1914.
Lee, Vernon. The Ballet of the Nations: a Present-Day
Morality. London: Chatto & Windus, 1915. New York: Putnam, 1915
(included and rewritten in Satan the
Waster).
Lee, Vernon. Peace with Honour: Controversial Notes on
the Settlement. London: Union of Democratic Control, 1915.
Lee, Vernon. Satan the Waster: a Philosophic War Trilogy
with Notes and Introduction. London: John Lane, 1920. Rpt. With preface
added in 1930.
Lee, Vernon. The Handling of Words. London: John
Lane, 1923. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968 (with an
introduction by Royal A. Gettmann).
Lee, Vernon. The Handling of Words. D. Seed ed. &
intr. Lewiston: Edward Mellen Press, 1992.
Lee, Vernon (ed.) Art and Man, by Clementina
Anstruther-Thomson. Introduction by Vernon Lee. London: John Lane, 1924.
Lee, Vernon. The Golden Key. London: John Lane, 1925.
Lee, Vernon. Proteus: Or the Future of Intelligence.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1925.
Lee, Vernon. The Poet’s Eye. London: Hogarth Press,
1926.
Lee, Vernon and Kit
Anstruther-Thomson. Music and Its Lovers:
An Empirical Study of Emotional and Imaginative Responses to Music. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1932.
b. Articles and book chapters
Lee, Vernon. “Musical
expression and the Composers of the 18th Century », New Quarterly Magazine, April 1877.
Lee, Vernon. “The Art of
Singing, Past and Present », British
Quraterly Review, Oct. 1880.
Lee, Vernon. “The
Responsibilities of Unbelief: A Conversation between Three Rationalists”. Contemporary Review 43 (May 1883):
685-710.
Lee, Vernon. Lettere disperse ed inedite di Pietro
Metastasio, vol. I (Bologne, Zanichelli). A Book review by V. Lee in The Academy. 7 July 1883, pp. 331-2.
Lee, Vernon. “The
Immortality of the Maestro Galuppi », chap. 1 in Juvenilia, vol. II, 1887.
Lee, Vernon. “Emerson,
Transcendentalists and Utilitarians”, The
Contemporary Review, LXVII (March 1895), 345-420.
Lee, Vernon. “The Need
to Believe: an Agnostic’s Notes on Professor Wm. James », The Fortnightly Review, LXXII (n. s.
LXVI), Nov. 1899, 827-42.
Lee, Vernon. “Le rôle de l’élément moteur dans la
perception esthétique visuelle.” MS
essay. 1901.
Introduction to The Life of St Mary Magdalen, transl.
from the Italian of an unknown XIVth century writer by Valentina
Hawtrey. John Lane, 1904.
Lee, Vernon. “The Riddle
of Music.” The Quarterly Review 204
(Jan. 1906): 207-27. A scholarly review of: The
Power of Sound by Edmund Gurney (London: Smith & Elder, 1880); Vom Musikalisch Shönen by Eduard
Hanslick (9th ed. Leipzig: Barth, 1896); Essai sur l’esprit musical by Lionel Dauriac (Paris: Alcan, 1904); Les rapports de la musique et de la poésie
by Jules Combarieu (Paris: Alcan, 1894); Die
Musik als Ausdruck by Friedrich von Hausegger (Munich, 1887); La logique des sentiments by Théodule
Ribot (Paris: Alcan, 1905); Grundegung
der Aesthetick by Theodor Lipps (Hamburg: Voss, 1903).
Lee, Vernon. “Beauty and
Sanity » Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on
Art and Life. London: Bodley Head, 1909.
Lee, Vernon. “The
Religious and Moral Status of Wagner », Fortnightly Review, New Series, 89, Jan-June 1911, pp. 868-885.
Lee, Vernon. “John
Singer Sargent: In Memoriam.” In Evan Charteris (ed.). John Singer Sargent. London: Heinemann, 1927.
Vernon Lee. Miss Brown. Translated by Robert de
Cerisy. Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1889.
[Vernon Lee] Les épées de l’effroi;
histoires surnaturelles. Verviers: Marabout, “Fantastique, 363”, 1970.
Translated by Michel Chrestien.
“Une voix maléfique.” Translated by
Michel Chrestien. [Vernon Lee] Les épées
de l’effroi; histoires surnaturelles ; le monde évanescent des ombres et
des mystères abandonnés. Verviers: Marabout, “Fantastique, 363”, 1970.
Richter, Anne (ed.). Le Fantastique
féminin. Verviers: André Gérard, Marabout, 1977. (Reprints “Une voix
maléfique.” Translated by Michel Chrestien.)
“La Vierge aux sept poignards.” Translated by Michel Chestien. In [Vernon
Lee] Les épées de l’effroi; histoires
surnaturelles. Verviers: Marabout, “Fantastique, 363”, 1970.
Alice Oke, Michel Desforges trad., Toulouse,
Ombres, 1990.
La voix maudite, Trois
nouvelles fantastiques de Vernon Lee. Sophie
Geoffroy-Menoux (ed. and transl.), Rennes : Terre de Brume, 2001
[Includes : « La voix
maudite », « Winthrop, fantaisie musicale
», « La Vierge aux sept poignards », and a short story by SGM :
« Poggio Bracciolini »].
« La poupée », Sophie Geoffroy-Menoux transl., in Le
Visage vert, Paris, Joëlle Losfeld, 2001, a
pp. 70-81. From Vernon Lee, « The Doll » (1899); rpt. in For Maurice: Five Unlikely Stories,
London: John Lane, 1927.
Antonio Vivarelli,
portrait imaginaire d’un chanteur italien du XVIIIème siècle. Michel
Desforges (transl.), Toulouse : Ombres, “Petite bibliothèque Ombres”,
1993.
« Winthrop,
fantaisie musicale », Sophie Geoffroy-Menoux transl., in La voix maudite, 2001;
from Vernon Lee, “Winthrop’s Adventure, an Eighteenth Century Singer », Fraser’s Magazine, January 1881.
“La Vierge
aux sept poignards », Sophie Geoffroy-Menoux transl., in La voix maudite,
2001; from Vernon Lee, “The Virgin of the Seven Daggers », in For
Maurice: Five Unlikely Stories, London: John Lane, 1927.
Il Settecento in Italia : letteratura, teatro, musica /
studii di Vernon Lee .Milano
: Fratelli Dumolard, 1882.
Il parassitismo della donna / Vernon Lee ; traduzione autorizzata
di Carolina Pironti .Città di Castello : S. Lapi, 1912.
Il Settecento in Italia : accademie, musica, teatro / Vernon Lee ; traduzione dall'ultima edizione
inglese di Margherita Farina-Cini .Napoli : R. Ricciardi, 1932.
Possessioni : tre storie improbabili / Vernon Lee ; traduzione e nota di
Attilio Brilli .Palermo : Sellerio, [1982].
Il sangue e la rosa : storie di vampiri / Vernon Lee, Horacio Quiroga, Bram
Stoker e altri ; a cura di Claudio De Nardi .Trento : Reverdito, [1988].
Ombre italiane : racconti / Vernon Lee ; traduzione di Arnaldo
Ederle ; con uno scritto di Mario Praz .Parma : U. Guanda, [1988].
La vita musicale nell'Italia del
Settecento / Vernon
Lee ; introduzione di Armando Torno .Firenze : Passigli, [1994].
Arianna in Mantova.
Severi, Rita (ed.). Verona: Edizioni Postumia-Cierre, 1996.
Arianna a Mantova / Vernon Lee ; a cura di Enrico
Groppali .Palermo : Sellerio, [1996].
L'avventura di Winthrop, La leggenda di
madame Krasinska, Il cassone nunziale / Vernon Lee ; traduzione e cura di Sandro Melani
.Bologna : Re Enzo, stampa 2000.
Dionea e altre storie fantastiche / Vernon Lee ; con una nota di Attilio
Brilli ; traduzione di Simonetta Neri. Palermo : Sellerio, 2001].
Ravenna e i suoi fantasmi : un racconto
dimenticato di Vernon Lee e note sull'immagine e l'immaginario di una città / a cura di Eraldo Baldini e Sara
Trevisan ; testi di Eraldo Baldini ... [et al.] .Ravenna : Longo, [2005].
Gilman, Charlotte Stetson. La donna e l'economia sociale : studio delle relazioni economiche fra uomini e donne e della loro azione nell'evoluzione sociale / C. P. Stetson ; traduzione autorizzata di Carolina