Vernon Lee was a very singular personality in her time. Vernon Lee was a pen name of Violet Paget, a prolific British writer of essays on music, travel, and art. Paperback, Creature Publishing (although many, many editions exist) Triggers: Hover for Trigger WarningĪ post shared by Angie – Stranger Sights My Thoughts: With echoes of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” A Phantom Lover creates an otherworldly space for this provocative femme fatale to live and love as she pleases. Do this all while eluding the gaze of the male portrait painter, yet another man who would define you. When he accuses you, gaslight him: “No one was walking with me near the pond, at five o’clock or any other hour.” Spend your days in the yellow room, luxuriating in love letters written to your beloved murderess. Wear her musty clothes to the dinner party instead of the ones your husband wants you to wear. Obsess over your namesake, doppelgänger ancestor. If you are the housewife of a very good, very kind husband, parade your bad attitude in the most careless fashion possible.
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