Document Type
Finding Aids
Publication Date
2015
Collection Date
1866 - 1960.
Identifier
PAGET.1
Description
The Vernon Lee Collection at Colby College contains over 1000 letters, 136 manuscripts and articles, 117 photographs, and a small number of personal documents and artifacts, spanning the years 1866-1960. First and subsequent editions of Vernon Lee titles are described in the Colby Libraries web catalog. Materials arranged in seven series: Correspondence from Vernon Lee, Correspondence to Vernon Lee, Manuscripts, Published Writings, Photographs, Personal Items and Artifacts, and Clippings.
Recommended Citation
Collection of Vernon Lee Materials, Colby College Special Collections, Waterville, Maine.
Included in
Aesthetics Commons, Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture Commons, European Languages and Societies Commons, Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Commons, Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America Commons, Women's Studies Commons
Comments
Violet Paget, who published under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was born to English parents in France in 1856. She spent her life in England and Italy, was fluent in four languages, and became a central figure in the literary and social circles of her day. She wrote essays on aesthetics, archeology, history, and politics and authored over fifty books. She died in Florence in 1935.