Lee, Vernon

Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer on 14 October 1856. She published her first story at the age of 13. From the late 1880s onwards, she wrote ghost stories and novels, including A Phantom Lover, Amour Dure and Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady, and was notable for her commitment to peace and feminism, as well as for her less "British way" of criticising. She died in Florence on 13 February 1935; she was spared the experience of World War II and the fall of Western European culture into barbarism.