Vernon Lee - A Short Story Collection (Written by Vernon Lee)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/671740 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vernon Lee - A Short Story Collection Author: Vernon Lee Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: December 12, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Amy Levy. Vernon Lee died on 13th February 1935 in San Gervasio Bresciano|France to intellectual expatriate British parents. In common with several other very talented literary women of the day she felt it necessary to publish under a masculine pseudonym in order for her writing to be taken seriously. Indeed she seems to have adopted that persona across her whole lifestyle becoming personally known and acknowledged by all as Vernon Lee and accordingly dressed as a man. Her first published work|Italy.1 - Vernon Lee - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction2 - A Wicked Voice - Part 1 by Vernon Lee3 - A Wicked Voice - Part 2 by Vernon Lee4 - Amour Dure - Part 1 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee5 - Amour Dure - Part 2 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee6 - Marsyas in Flanders by Vernon Lee7 - The Enchanted Woods by Vernon Lee8 - Dionea - Part 1 by Vernon Lee9 - Dionea - Part 2 by Vernon Lee|Vernon Lee was born Violet Paget on 4th October 1856 in Boulogne|and travel with her scholarly appreciation animated by wit and imagination. Lee was well-regarded as an expert on the Italian Renaissance and was a proponent of the Aesthetic movement.Her literary talents were extensive and she wrote a number of novels and plays. Perhaps her best remembered works are her haunting and powerful short stories exploring the supernatural. Lee has often received accolades for these and glowingly compared to other authors such as M R James. A committed pacifist she was resolved to protest against World War I. Her social activism in other areas was perhaps fueled by her feminist beliefs. In her private life she was a lesbian and had long-term passionate relationships with three women including the doomed author and poet|in 1880|music|was taken from her collection of essays that had originally appeared in Fraser's Magazine with the scholarly title of; 'Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy.' It reflected her passion for music and centered on the rich creative lives of poet-librettist Pietro Metastasio and dramatists Carlo Goldoni and Carlo Gozzi. She wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art