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Vanitas: Polite Stories
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Vernon Lee
Violet Paget, known by the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British art historian and writer. She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music and travel.
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