Correspondence Type
ACS / Autograph Card Signed
Date
8-22-1886
Date Note
August 22, 1886
Location (Sent From)
Leeds, England
Location (Sent To)
Bagni di Lucca, Italy
Description
Considers her own story "very much better" than Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll"; will visit the Stillmans, then Terry and the Curtises; met a Dr. Allbut upon whom George Eliot is said to have modelled Lydgate in "Middlemarch", but "I am sufficient of a novelist to understand the value of such sayings."
Rights
Letter Number
316
Sheet Count
2
Page Count
5
Recommended Citation
Lee, Vernon (Violet Paget) and Paget, Matilda, "Violet Paget (Leeds, England) to Matilda Paget (Bagni di Lucca, Italy)" (1886). Vernon Lee: Letters Home. 277.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/letters_home/277