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  • Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856-1935 Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856-1935
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    Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856-1935

    Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget, a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction. This scholarly edition of her letters makes a selection from over 30 archives worldwide. In...
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  • A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee, Fiction A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee, Fiction
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    A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee, Fiction

    My Dear Boutourline, Do you remember my telling you, one afternoon that you sat upon the hearth stool at Florence, the story of Mrs. Oke of Okehurst? You thought it a fantastic tale, you lover of...
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  • Miss Brown by Vernon Lee, Fiction Miss Brown by Vernon Lee, Fiction
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    Miss Brown by Vernon Lee, Fiction

    Towards the end of the sitting, he suddenly looked up. "Have you ever read the 'Vita Nuova,' Miss Brown?" he asked. "What's the 'Vita Nuova'?" "It is a little book by Dante, in prose and verse,...
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  • A Selection of orations and eulogies, pronounced in different parts of the United States, in commemoration of the life, virtues, and pre-eminent services of Gen. George Washington, who died at Mount Vernon, December 14, 1799, in the 68th year of his A Selection of orations and eulogies, pronounced in different parts of the United States, in commemoration of the life, virtues, and pre-eminent services of Gen. George Washington, who died at Mount Vernon, December 14, 1799, in the 68th year of his
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    A Selection of orations and eulogies, pronounced in different parts of the United States, in commemoration of the life, virtues, and pre-eminent services of Gen. George Washington, who died at Mount Vernon, December 14, 1799, in the 68th year of his

    Title: A Selection of orations and eulogies, pronounced in different parts of the United States, in commemoration of the life, virtues, and pre-eminent services of Gen. George...
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  • Oke of Okehurst - or, A Phantom Lover Oke of Okehurst - or, A Phantom Lover
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    Oke of Okehurst - or, A Phantom Lover

    This vintage book contains Vernon Lee's 1890 supernatural horror novel, “Oke of Okehurst - Or, the Phantom Lover”. “Vernon Lee” was the pen name of British author Violet Paget (1856–1935). Paget was...
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    Hauntings
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    Hauntings

    Hauntings (1890) is a short story collection by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar of the Italian Renaissance, Hauntings collects...
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  • Laurus Nobilis - Chapters on Art and Life Laurus Nobilis - Chapters on Art and Life
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    Laurus Nobilis - Chapters on Art and Life

    “Laurus Nobilis” is an 1909 collection of essays on the subject of aestheticism written by Vernon Lee. Contents include: "The Use of Beauty”, “'Nisi Citharam'”, “Higher Harmonies”, “Beauty and...
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    Classic Supernatural Stories
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    Classic Supernatural Stories

    This cornucopia of thrills and chills features 25 of the finest English-language tales of the uncanny and macabre. In addition to works by such stellar authors as Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft,...
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  • A Phantom Lover
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    A Phantom Lover

    A Phantom Lover (1886) is a story by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar of the Italian Renaissance, A Phantom Lover is a chilling...
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  • The Countess of Albany The Countess of Albany
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    The Countess of Albany

    First published in 1884, this book contains a biography of Princess Louise Maximilienne Caroline Emmanuele of Stolberg-Gedern (1752–1824) written by Vernon Lee. Often referred to as the Countess of...
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    The Spirit of Rome
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    The Spirit of Rome

    The Spirit of Rome (1906) is a memoir by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar of the Italian Renaissance, The Spirit of Rome is a...
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  • Althea Althea
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    Althea

    In this philosophical work, Vernon Lee explores questions of morality, self-improvement, and societal expectations through a series of dialogues between the title character, Althea, and her mentor...
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  • Laurus Nobilis, Chapters on Art and Life Laurus Nobilis, Chapters on Art and Life
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    Laurus Nobilis, Chapters on Art and Life

    This collection of essays by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget) explores the relationship between art and life. The author examines a wide range of topics, from the symbolism of flowers to the...
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  • Belcaro Belcaro
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    Belcaro

    Explore the nature of beauty, art, and culture with this collection of insightful essays from renowned art critic Vernon Lee. From the enduring appeal of the Renaissance masters to the changing...
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  • Second sight
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    Second sight

    This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary...
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    The Countless of Albany
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    The Countless of Albany

    The Countess of Albany (1886) is a biography by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar of the Italian Renaissance, The Countess of Albany...
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    Laurus Nobilis
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    Laurus Nobilis

    Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life (1909) is a collection of essays by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar of the Italian...
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  • Vital Lies Vital Lies
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    Vital Lies

    A series of studies examining different varieties of recent obscurantism. Written by Vernon Lee, an esteemed scholar and philosopher, this book offers a thought-provoking analysis of the different...
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  • The ghost story 18401920
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    The ghost story 18401920

    The ghost story 1840-1920: A cultural history examines the British ghost story within the political contexts of the long nineteenth century. By relating the ghost story to economic, national,...
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  • Vital Lies V2 Vital Lies V2
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    Vital Lies V2

    Vital Lies V2: Studies Of Some Varieties Of Recent Obscurantism (1912) is a book written by Vernon Lee. The book is a collection of essays that explore the different types of obscurantism that were...
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  • The Perturbed Self The Perturbed Self
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    The Perturbed Self

    By comparison of late nineteenth-century ghost stories between China and Britain, this monograph traces the entangled dynamics between ghost story writing, history-making, and the moulding of a...
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  • The Haunted House in Women's Ghost Stories The Haunted House in Women's Ghost Stories
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    The Haunted House in Women's Ghost Stories

    This book explores Victorian and modernist haunted houses in female-authored ghost stories as representations of the architectural uncanny. It reconsiders the gendering of the supernatural in terms...
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  • Notework
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    Notework

    Notework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering...
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  • George Washington Parke Custis George Washington Parke Custis
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    George Washington Parke Custis

    George Washington Parke Custis (1781-1857) was raised at Mount Vernon by George and Martha Washington. Young "Wash" appears in Savage's 1789 painting of the first presidential family, his small...
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  • A. Mary F. Robinson A. Mary F. Robinson
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    A. Mary F. Robinson

    Born in England in 1857, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson contributed to cultural and literary currents from nineteenth-century Victorianism to twentieth-century modernism; she was equally at home in...
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  • Women's Fiction and the Great War
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    Women's Fiction and the Great War

    The essays in this volume on women's writing of the First World War are written from an explicitly theoretical and academic feminist perspective. The contributors - including a number of leading...
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  • The Prince Of The Hundred Soups The Prince Of The Hundred Soups
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    The Prince Of The Hundred Soups

    ""The Prince of the Hundred Soups: A Puppet Show, In Narrative"" is a novel written by Vernon Lee and published in 1883. The story follows a young prince who, upon inheriting his father's kingdom,...
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  • The Late Victorian Gothic The Late Victorian Gothic
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    The Late Victorian Gothic

    Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist séances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows...
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  • Vanitas. Polite stories. Vanitas. Polite stories.
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    Vanitas. Polite stories.

    Title: Vanitas. Polite stories.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest...
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  • Global Politics in a Post-Truth Age Global Politics in a Post-Truth Age
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    Global Politics in a Post-Truth Age

    This book brings together a range of chapters from a diverse set of authors that reflect upon the state of global, regional and national politics in the twenty-first century within the context of...
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  • Before Queer Theory
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    Before Queer Theory

    Late Victorian aesthetes were dedicated to the belief that an artwork's value derived solely from its beauty, rather than any moral or utilitarian purpose. Works by these queer artists have rarely...
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  • Before Queer Theory
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    Before Queer Theory

    Late Victorian aesthetes were dedicated to the belief that an artwork's value derived solely from its beauty, rather than any moral or utilitarian purpose. Works by these queer artists have rarely...
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  • Animating the Antique
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    Animating the Antique

    Framed by tensions between figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional representations, Animating the Antique explores enthralling episodes in a history of...
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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic
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    The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic

    By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic-the...
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  • A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse
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    A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse

    A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse (1889) is a poetry collection by Amy Levy. Published in the year of her death at the age of 27, A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse is the work of a pioneering...
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