Under cross and crescent

by Violet Fane

Under Cross and Crescent. Poems.

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British Library
Fane, Violet;
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8º.
C.68.h.19.

129 pages, Nook

First published February 9, 2010

About the author

Violet Fane is the literary pseudonym of Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie (née Lamb). A poet, a writer, and later an ambassadress who was active in the British literary scene from 1872 until her death in 1905, Fane was a literary celebrity associated with Aestheticism, Medievalism. Her verses were occasionally set to music by famous composers such as Paolo Tosti. As a well-known figure in London society, Fane's coterie included famous literary personas such as Robert Browning, Algernon Swinburne, A. W. Kinglake, Alfred Austin, James McNeil Whistler, Lillie Langtry, and Oscar Wilde, who praised the oracular bent of Fane's opinions on 'the relation of art to nature' by saying that she ‘live[d] between Parnassus and Piccadilly’.