Description - Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856–1935, Volume 1 by Amanda Gagel
Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget (1856–1935). She was a prolific author, recognized in the 1880s and 1890s for her contributions to the history of eighteenth-century Italian art and culture and the Aesthetic Movement. In her later career Lee was known for her writings on literary theory, supernatural fiction and radical political polemics. Although she spent the majority of her life in Italy she played a significant part in the British intellectual and literary world. She was an active correspondent and commentator who included many well-known figures among her circle. These included Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, Ottoline Morrell, Edith Wharton, H G Wells, Romain Rolland, Daniel Halévy, Walter Pater, Gaetano Salvemini, Henry James, Amy Levy, Mary Robinson and Isabella Stuart Gardner.
This scholarly edition of Lee’s letters, published serially in three volumes, makes a selection from more than thirty archives worldwide. They are representative of the full range of her correspondence and reflect her interest in psychology, literature, cosmopolitanism, pacifism, art and architecture, and Italian history, as well as her personal life which featured long relationships with the poet Mary Robinson and Kit Anstruther-Thomson.
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