This lecture will highlight the role of resident women as artists, collectors, travel writers and art historians in late nineteenth-century Florence including, Vernon Lee, Maud Cruttwell, Mary Berenson and Emma Bardini through surviving correspondences and diaries preserved in local Florentine archival holdings including the British Institute Archive, the Archivio Storico Eredità Bardini and the Historic Archives of Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti.

Detail of Scott Burdick’s Vernon Lee Home (2000) Private collection