"Receive from me (àpropos of extraordinary women,) a word of warning about Vernon Lee....My reasons are several...but one of them is that she has lately, as I am told (in a volume of tales called Vanitas which I haven't read,) directed a kind of satire of a flagrant & markedly 'saucy' kind at me (!!)"
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| John Singer Sargent's portrait of Vernon Lee |

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