Violet Paget

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John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Vernon Lee (1881)
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Violet Paget aka Vernon Lee, circa 1870.

Violet Paget (1856-1935) 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
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


Further reading




  • Vernon Lee: Violet Paget, 1856-1935 (1964) Peter Gunn
  • The Lesbian Imagination (Victorian style): a psychological and critical study of "Vernon Lee" (1987) Burdett Gardner
  • Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography (2003) Vineta Colby
  • Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History from Antiquity to World War II. Routledge; London. 2002. ISBN 0-415-15983-0. 
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