Violet Paget
Violet Paget was a writer of ghost stories. She was also noted for her works on aesthetics and philosophy.
Paget was a lesbian, who dressed "á la garconne", and used a male pseudonym. She had two long-term relationships with women, with Mary Robinson and Kit Anstruther-Thomson.
Works
- SFnal works
- “Oke of Okehurst: or the Phantom Lover”
- "Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady" (1895) (first published in the The Yellow Book (an English literary quarterly))
- Collections
- Hauntings (1890)
- Other works
- Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy (1880)
- Ottilie: An Eighteenth Century Idyl (1883)
- The Prince of the Hundred Soups: A Puppet Show in Narrative (1883)
- Belcaro, Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions (1883)
- The Countess of Albany (1884)
- Miss Brown (1884) novel
- Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance (1884)
- Baldwin: Being Dialogues on Views and Aspirations (1886)
- A Phantom Lover: A Fantastic Story (1886) novella, also Oke of Okehurst, Alice Oke
- Juvenilia, Being a second series of essays on sundry aesthetical questions (1887)
- Hauntings. Fantastic Stories (1890)
- Vanitas: Polite Stories (1892)
- Althea: Dialogues on Aspirations & Duties (1894)
- Renaissance Fancies And Studies Being A Sequel To Euphorion (1895)
- Art and Life (1896)
- Limbo and Other Essays (1897)
- Genius Loci (1899) travel
- The Child In The Vatican (1900)
- In Umbria: A Study of Artistic Personality (1901)
- Chapelmaster Kreisler A Study of Musical Romanticists (1901)
- Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh Coast in the Eighteenth Century (1903)
- The Legend of Madame Krasinska (1903)
- Ariadne in Mantua: a Romance in Five Acts (1903)
- Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of life (1904)
- Pope Jacynth - And Other Fantastic Tales (1904)
- The Enchanted Woods (1905) essays
- The Handling of Words and Other Studies in Literary Psychology (1906)
- Sister Benvenuta and the Christ Child, an eighteenth-century legend (1906)
- The Spirit of Rome (1906)
- Ravenna and Her Ghosts (1907)
- The Sentimental Traveller . Notes on Places (1908)
- Gospels of Anarchy & Other Contemporary Studies (1908)
- Laurus Nobili: Chapters on Art and Life (1909)
- In Praise of Old Gardens (1912) with others
- Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism ( 1912).
- The Beautiful. An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics (1913)
- The Tower of the Mirrors and Other Essays on the Spirit of Places (1914)
- Louis Norbert. A Twofold Romance (1914) novel
- The Ballet of the Nations. A Present-Day Morality (1915) illustrations by Maxfield Armfield
- Satan the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy (1920)
- Proteus or The Future Of Intelligence (1925)
- The Golden Keys (1925) essays
- The Poet's Eye (Hogarth Press, 1926)
- For Maurice. Five Unlikely Stories (1927)
- Music and its Lovers (1932)
- Snake Lady and Other Stories (1954)
- Supernatural Tales (1955)
- The Virgin of the Seven Daggers - And Other Chilling Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1962)
Names
- Vernon Lee (pseudonym)
- Violet Paget (name)
Further reading
- Lauren Davis, "Women Who Pretended to Be Men to Publish Scifi Books", io9, Nov. 6, 2008.