Dear readers,
We are glad to announce the publication of the volume of articles dedicated to Vernon Lee’s and other nineteenth century women’s political theory. This book gathers the selected proceedings of the two international conferences organised in Paris in October 2013 and March 2015 by Pr. Sophie Geoffroy (U. of La Réunion) and Pr. Michel Prum (U. Paris-Diderot-Sorbonne-Cité).
Women and Political Theory : Vernon Lee and Radical Circles

Content :
Introduction
Vernon Lee e Gaetano Salvemini
Vernon Lee and Gaetano Salvemini
Being in Borders: Vernon Lee, Empathy and Pacifist Resistance
V. Lee and the Ford Sisters: varieties of socialism and trade unionism
Vernon Lee and Ednah Dow Cheney: Aesthetics, Art, and Affect
“War Work” and the Philosophy of Heroism: A. Mary F. Robinson Duclaux’s “Friendly Fire” with Marie Lenèru and Vernon Lee
The Unique Correspondence of Vernon Lee and Irene Forbes-Mosse in World War I: Women’s Friendship Transcending Enemy Lines
Vernon Lee, Paul Desjardins, Daniel Halévy and Romain Rolland
Vernon Lee and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: the Anglo-American alliance on the “Woman Question”
A Tale of Two Americans, the History They Made, and a Comparison: Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910, Voltairine de Cleyre 1866-1912, and Vernon Lee 1856-1935
Mary Duclaux
Sophie Geoffroy
Stefano Vincieri
Sophie Jorrand
Rachel Baldacchino
Marie Terrier
Therese B. Dykeman
Patricia Rigg
Christa Zorn
Sophie Geoffroy
Gabriella di Martino and Sole Alba Zollo
Therese B. Dykeman
Jacqueline Bayard-Pierlot