Although Vernon Lee (born Violet Paget) was widely respected for her intellect during her lifetime-- Henry James, for example, wrote to his brother William on 20 January 1893 that Lee's "vigour and sweep of intellect are most rare and her talk superior...

Because she wanted recognition for her work on aesthetics and politics, Vernon Lee sometimes complained of the popularity of her travel essays. Yet her seven collections of travel writing composed between 1897 and 1925 represent not only the excellence...

"There is no doubt that Vernon Lee will be read by her posterity," predicted Desmond MacCarthy in 1931, "for her work is a rare combination of intellectual curiosity and imaginative sensibility." MacCarthy expressed the views of many of Vernon Lee's...

The prolific author known as Vernon Lee occupies an unusual position in the intellectual history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Had she been male, her extensive albeit undisciplined scholarship, her keen sense of aesthetic...

Violet Paget, who took the pen name of Vernon Lee, was born to English expatriate parents on 14 October 1856 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. She was recognized in her time as one of the most impressive intellectuals of Victorian England, noted for her...