Vernon Lee Books

The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics

Vernon Lee

THIS little book, like the great branch of mental science to which it is an introduction, makes no attempt to "form the taste" of the public and still less to direct the doings of the artist. It deals..

A Phantom Lover

Vernon Lee

A Phantom Lover is a supernatural novella by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget) first published in 1886. Set in a Kentish manor house, the story concerns a portrait painter commissioned by a squir..

The Spirit of Rome

Vernon Lee

The Spirit of Rome is an account of Italian travel work written by Vernon Lee, the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget. She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her ..