“Vernon Lee” was the pseudonym of Violet Paget (1856-1935), a prolific author who was also a feminist and a pacifist. Paget’s supernatural fiction has been compared to that of M. R. James by Montague Summers, while scholar and critic Everett Bleiler noted that her stories “are really in a category by themselves…they deserve more than the passing attention that they have attracted.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Marsyas in Flanders” was written in 1900, and has been anthologized many times since. As you can see from the PDF below, we had already done a first pass on annotating this story, which means we fully intended to use it…right up until the final decisions. Although we ended up (regretfully!) not using it in Weird Women<\/em>, we are still happy to share it with readers here. <\/p>\n\n\nLee<\/a>\n “Vernon Lee” was the pseudonym of Violet Paget (1856-1935), a prolific author who was also a feminist and a pacifist. Paget’s supernatural fiction has been compared to that of M. R. James by Montague Summers, while scholar and critic Everett … <\/p>\n