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Vernon Lee : Euphorion

Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading your Euphorion, and I find it such a prodigious young performance ... that dedications should come to you not from you [Lee had dedicated her novel Miss Brown to James]."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

Vernon Lee : Miss Brown

Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received the volumes, and have lately read a large part of them over again."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

Vernon Lee : Miss Brown

Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received the volumes, and have lately read a large part of them over again."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

Vernon Lee : Hauntings

In letter to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) of 27 April 1890, Henry James thanks her for Hauntings, her book of ghost stories, which he has read and enjoyed: "I possess the eminently psychical stories as well as the material volume."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

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