Hauntings

An academic working in an Italian archive becomes obsessed with a mysterious Renaissance noblewoman. A young girl is washed up on a beach following a violent storm. At the home of an older British couple, a painter finds a strange resemblance between the lady of the house and her distant ancestor. Hauntings is a short story collection 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: 9781513295640
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-9564-0
• No. of pages: 152
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—Reading With Pride; Mint Editions (Reading With Pride)
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, Classic horror & ghost stories, Classic horror and ghost stories