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Vernon Lee

English essayist
Also known as: Violet Paget
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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. In 1878 she determined to publish under a masculine pseudonym in order to be taken seriously, and in 1880 her collection of essays that had originally appeared in Fraser’s...

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