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Vernon Lee

English essayist
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Pseudonym of:
Violet Paget
Born:
Oct. 14, 1856, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Died:
Feb. 13, 1935, San Gervasio Bresciano, Italy (aged 78)

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 Magazine was published under the name by which she came to be known both personally and professionally. This work, Studies of the Eighteenth Century in ...(100 of 195 words)

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