LEE VERNON

(P/B) A PHANTOM LOVER
An anthology of the best stories, snippets and imaginative pieces by Vernon Lee, the pen name of Violet Paget. During her lifetime Violet Paget, who wrote as Vernon Lee, was referred to as 'the greatest of modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction', and yet today she remains on the periphery of the genre. This collection of her uniquely weird short stories and dark fantasies proves why she was once considered among the best of the genre, and why she deserves to return to those ranks today. From modernised folk tales such as 'Marsyas ...
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(P/B) THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AN ART WRITER
An openly lesbian, feminist writer, Vernon Lee - a pseudonym of Violet Paget - is the most important female aesthetician to come out of nineteenth century England. Though she was widely known for her supernatural fictions, Lee hasn't gained the recognition she so clearly deserves for her contributions in the fields of aesthetics, philosophy of empathy, and art criticism. An early follower of Walter Pater, her work is characterized by extreme attention to her own responses to artworks, and a level of psychological sensitivity rarely seen in...
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(P/B) THE VIRGIN OF THE SEVEN DAGGERS