We are delighted to announce that Volume IV of the Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856–1935, covering the years 1897 to 1904, has now been published! Order your copy here.

The letters in this volume follow Lee’s exchanges across her remarkably wide cosmopolitan network, the unfolding relationship with Clementina Anstruther-Thomson, the notorious plagiarism dispute with Bernard Berenson and Mary Costelloe, and the miraculous recovery and marriage of Eugene Lee-Hamilton. They offer a glimpse into the making of Genius Loci, Hortus Vitae, Laurus Nobilis and Ariadne in Mantua, and show Lee responding to the aesthetic and social debates of her day.