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Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music and travel.
Vernon Lee (born Oct. 14, 1856, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France—died Feb. 13, 1935, San Gervasio Bresciano, Italy) was an English essayist and novelist who is best known for her works on aesthetics. Paget was born to cosmopolitan and peripatetic intellectuals who in 1873 settled their family in Florence.
Apr 3, 2018 · Vernon Lee was the nom de plume of Violet Paget (1856–1935), a writer of astonishing range and audacity whose published works include historical studies of art and music, dense treatises on aesthetic psychology, acclaimed travel essays, meditations on gardens, pacifist and feminist pamphlets, and supernatural tales.
Jul 12, 2018 · Vernon Lee was a master of nineteenth-century ghost stories, but she faded from cultural memory after her death in 1935. She’s been rediscovered recently, sighted like a specter in the distance. And it isn’t just her collections of late Victorian horror that intrigue.
Mar 2, 2011 · Vernon Lee (b. 1856–d. 1935) is the pen name of the prolific author and critic Violet Paget. Lee was a cosmopolitan intellectual who lived most of her life in Continental Europe, although she published nearly all of her work in Britain.
Over the course of her sixty-year career, Vernon Lee, woman of letters, aesthetician and pacifist, both anticipated, and participated in, the wider shift from Victorian earnestness to Modernist play which shaped British literature at the turn of the twentieth century.
Violet Paget, known by her pen name Vernon Lee, is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel, poetry and contributed to The Yellow Book.
Vernon Lee, born Violet Paget in 1856 to English parents who lived on the Continent, bridged two worlds and many cultures. She was a Victorian by birth but lived into the second quarter of the twentieth century.
Newly available letters and Lee's negotiations with editors clarify the occluded history of Lee's journalism and her slow essay serials, a distinctive serial form at the fin de siècle, which this article conceptualizes in closing.
Apr 29, 2003 · Vernon Lee, born Violet Paget in 1856 to English parents who lived on the Continent, bridged two worlds and many cultures. She was a Victorian by birth but lived into the second...