The Spirit of Rome

In these diary entries written over the course of a decade, she returns to the city of Rome, where she spent the formative years of her youth. Roaming the ruins, palaces, churches, and streets of the city, she discovers both history and herself anew. The Spirit of Rome is a travel memoir by Vernon Lee.

About the author

Violet Paget (14 October 1856-13 February 1935) wrote under the pseudonym Vernon Lee. Today, she is well known for her supernatural literature and aesthetic work. She was an early admirer of Walter Pater and authored over a dozen volumes of articles on art, music, and travel. Violet Paget was born in France on October 14, 1856, at Château St Leonard in Boulogne, to British expatriate parents Henry Ferguson Paget and Matilda Lee Hamilton (née Adams). Violet Paget was Eugene Jacob Lee-Hamilton's (1845-1907) half-sister from her mother's first marriage, and she adopted her own pseudonym after his surname.

Product details

• Authors: Vernon Lee
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.08.2021
• EAN: 9781513295657
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-9565-7
• No. of pages: 136
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—Reading With Pride; Mint Editions (Reading With Pride)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Rome, Memoirs, TRAVEL / Europe / Italy, TRAVEL / Special Interest / General