Violet Fane
Mary Montgomerie, Lady Currie (née Lamb, 24 February 1843 – 13 October 1905), known by the literary pseudonym Violet Fane, was an English poet, writer, and later an ambassadress. Active in the British literary scene from 1872 until her death in 1905, Fane was a literary celebrity associated with Aestheticism, Medievalism, whose verses were set to music by composers such as Paolo Tosti and Hermine Küchenmeister-Rudersdorf. 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’. |
Birth and Death Data: Born Littlehampton (town in West Sussex, England) , Died October 13, 1905 (Harrogate (town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England) )
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1901 - 1912
Roles Represented in DAHR: author
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= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.
Recordings
| Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor | A-757 | 7-in. | between 1901 and 1903 | Forever and forever | William H. Thompson | Male vocal solo, with piano | author | |
| Victor | B-757 | 10-in. | 11/30/1903 | Forever and forever | W. H. Thompson | Male vocal solo, with piano | author | |
| Victor | B-4069 | 10-in. | 11/28/1906 | Forever and forever | Corinne Morgan | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
| Victor | B-12382 | 10-in. | 9/18/1912 | Forever and forever | Alan Turner | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
| Columbia | 1973 | 10-in. | approximately 1904 | Na wieki i na wieki | Alexandre N. Panasiewicz | Male vocal solo, with piano | author | |
| Columbia | 30520 | 12-in. | approximately 1910 | Forever and ever | Mrs. A. Stewart Holt | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | author |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Fane, Violet," accessed December 24, 2025, http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/103857.
Fane, Violet. (2025). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved December 24, 2025, from http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/103857.
"Fane, Violet." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2025. Web. 24 December 2025.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Fane, Violet, 1843-1905 - https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82136790
Wikidata: Violet Fane - https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4102530
VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/89070216
MusicBrainz: Violet Fane - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8ad645d1-5035-4d51-9bbb-83260ba48220
Fast: https://id.worldcat.org/fast/100266 - https://id.worldcat.org/fast/100266
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