219 - PAGET DIT VERNON LEE Violet [Boulogne-sur-Mer], British writer and essayist.

PAGET DIT VERNON LEE Violet [Boulogne-sur-Mer], British writer and essayist. Signed autograph letter addressed to a lady. Florence, September 28, 1885; 10 pages, in-8°, in French. She writes regarding the translation of her book *Miss Brown*. She is very pleased that her novel is “judged by a wider audience more accustomed to artistic criticism than the English public” and that her book reveals to French readers “that strange intensity of moral life, in both good and evil, which always strikes me, as a cosmopolitan, among my English compatriots; an intensity that foreigners, unfortunately, tend to know more through the lens of individual eccentricity than through that of major social movements .” Vernon Lee believed that a study introducing the British world would be necessary for understanding her novel and suggested either consulting Gabriel Sarrasin, using Paul Bourget’s article published in *Les Débats*, or writing a preface herself...