Vernon Lee

The Countess of Albany (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Years after failing to take back the British crown in the Jacobite uprising of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart marries the beautiful Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern. Despite their fortuitous match, an age difference of decades and difficulty bearing a child proves disastrous for their relationship. The Countess of Albany is a work of history and biography by Vernon Lee.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513297170
• Artikelnr.: 62376911

Autorenporträt

Vernon Lee (1856-1935) was the pen name of Violet Paget, a British author of supernatural fiction. Born in France to British expatriate parents, Paget spent most of her life in continental Europe. A committed feminist and pacifist, she joined the Union of Democratic Control during the First World War to express her opposition to British militarism. A lesbian, Paget had relationships with Mary Robinson, Amy Levy, and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson throughout her life. Paget, a dedicated follower of Walter Pater's Aesthetic movement, lived for many years in Florence, where she gained a reputation as a leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance. In addition to her work in art history, Paget was a leading writer of short fiction featuring supernatural figures and themes. Among her best known works are Hauntings (1890), a collection of four chilling tales, and "Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady," a story which appeared in an 1895 issue of The Yellow Book, a controversial periodical that featured the works of Aubrey Beardsley, George Gissing, Henry James, and William Butler Yeats. Although Paget was largely forgotten by the mid-twentieth century, feminist scholars have rekindled attention in her pioneering work as a leading proponent of Aestheticism.