VIOLET PAGET ["VERNON LEE".]
\vˈa͡ɪ͡ələt pˈaɡɪt vˈɜːnən lˈiː], \vˈaɪələt pˈaɡɪt vˈɜːnən lˈiː], \v_ˈaɪə_l_ə_t p_ˈa_ɡ_ɪ_t__ v_ˈɜː_n_ə_n l_ˈiː]\
Definitions of VIOLET PAGET ["VERNON LEE".]
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An English story-teller and miscellaneous writer; born at Chateau St.-Leonard in Normandy. She is author of several works on the history of art and of culture, among them "Studies of the 18th Century in Italy" (1880); "Belcaro: Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions" (1881); "Euphorion: Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance" (2 vols. 2d ed. 1885); "Renaissance Francies and Studies" (1895). Among her stories are: "Ottilie" (1883); "Miss Brown" (1884); "Limbo, Essays" (1897).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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