She’s a tiger-cat!
Miranda Seymour: Birds’ claw omelettes with Vernon Lee, 22 January 2004
Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography
by Vineta Colby.
Virginia, 387 pp., £32.50, May 2003,0 8139 2158 9 Show More
by Vineta Colby.
Virginia, 387 pp., £32.50, May 2003,
“... body of a woman, naked, and miserably disfigured with blows and sabre cuts’. It was wise of Vineta Colby to resist the temptation to explore the erotic implications of Alberic’s love for a snake, but she might usefully have connected the author’s sensitivity to the mutilated corpse of Oriana instead of concentrating on the lush and haunting ... ”
