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.
Preface and apology
1. The adjective 'beautiful'
2. Contemplative satisfaction
3. Aspects versus things
4. Sensations
5. Perception of relations
6. Elements of shape
7. Facility and difficulty of grasping
8. Subject and object, or, nominative and accusative
9. Empathy (Einfühlung)
10. The movement of lines
11. The character of shapes
12. From the shape to the thing
13. From the thing to the shape
14. The aims of art
15. Attention to shapes
16. Information about things
17. Co-operation of things and shapes
18. Æsthetic responsiveness
19. The storage and transfer of emotion
20. Æsthetic irradiation and purification
21. Conclusion (evolutional)
Bibliography
Index.
