{"id":602,"date":"2015-03-19T11:03:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/?p=602"},"modified":"2024-01-29T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T18:27:10","slug":"v-lee-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/v-lee-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernon Lee Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Violet Paget (1856-1935) was born to English parents in France in 1856 and published under the pseudonym&nbsp;Vernon Lee. She spent her life in England and Italy, was fluent in four languages, and became a central figure in the literary and social circles of her day. She&nbsp;wrote essays&nbsp;on aesthetics, archeology, history, and politics and authored over&nbsp;fifty books. She died in Florence in 1935.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.colby.edu\/cq\/vol5\/iss6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 1960<\/a> issue of the <em>Colby Library Quarterly<\/em> is features articles on Vernon Lee including a biographical sketch written by her associate and executrix, Irene Cooper Willis.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1094\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/files\/2015\/03\/VL-1914-facing-left.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1094\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/files\/2015\/03\/VL-1914-facing-left-1024x644.jpg\" alt=\"VL 1914 facing left\" width=\"420\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/files\/2015\/03\/VL-1914-facing-left-1024x644.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/files\/2015\/03\/VL-1914-facing-left-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1914 photograph of Vernon Lee at her Florence villa, Il Palmerino.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><em>COLLECTION DETAILS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Vernon Lee Collection contains over 1,000 letters, hundreds of manuscripts, articles and photographs, and a small number of personal documents and artifacts in addition to published works.<\/p>\n<p>Descriptive information about the Vernon Lee Collection is available <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.colby.edu\/special-collections-colby\/\">online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><em>HIGHLIGHTED DONORS FOR THIS COLLECTION<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/the-people\/highlighted-donors\/i-c-willis-donor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irene Cooper Willis<\/a> &#8211; primary donor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/the-people\/cla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colby Library Associates<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/the-people\/curators\/c-j-weber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carl Jefferson Weber<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violet Paget (1856-1935) was born to English parents in France in 1856 and published under the pseudonym&nbsp;Vernon Lee. She spent her life in England and Italy, was fluent in four languages, and became a central figure in the literary and social circles of her day. She&nbsp;wrote essays&nbsp;on aesthetics, archeology, history, and politics and authored over&nbsp;fifty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225752,225915,31218,45060,45057,218449,31221,45058],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}