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Vernon Lee, The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics

Vernon Lee publishes The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics.

Articles

">Irena Yamboliev, “Christopher Dresser, Physiological Ornamentist”

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">Morna O’Neill, “On Walter Crane and the Aims of Decorative Art”

">Jill R. Ehnenn, “On Art Objects and Women’s Words: Ekphrasis in Vernon Lee (1887), Graham R. Tomson (1889), and Michael Field (1892)”

">Scott C. Thompson, “On G. H. Lewes’s Problems of Life and Mind, 1874—79″

David Rettenmaier
Aug 1878


Vernon Lee, “Orpheus and Eurydice: The Lesson of a Bas-Relief”

Vernon Lee's “Orpheus and Eurydice: The Lesson of a Bas-Relief” is published in Cornhill Magazine.

Articles

">Irena Yamboliev, “Christopher Dresser, Physiological Ornamentist”

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">Morna O’Neill, “On Walter Crane and the Aims of Decorative Art”

">Jill R. Ehnenn, “On Art Objects and Women’s Words: Ekphrasis in Vernon Lee (1887), Graham R. Tomson (1889), and Michael Field (1892)”

David Rettenmaier
Jan 1887 to Jun 1887

Amour Dure published in Murray's Magazine

Publication of the novella Amour Dure by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget).

Articles

Jill R. Ehnenn, "On Art Objects and Women's Words: Ekphrasis in Vernon Lee (1887), Graham R. Tomson (1889), and Michael Field (1892)"

David Rettenmaier
Oct 1897 to Nov 1897

"Beauty and Ugliness"

Photo of Vernon LeeVernon Lee (Violet Paget) and Clementina (“Kit”) Anstruther-Thomson first published “Beauty & Ugliness,” a work of “anthropomorphic aesthetics,” in the October/November numbers of the Contemporary Review. Later published as Beauty & Ugliness and Other Studies in Psychological Aesthetics (London: John Lane, 1912). Image: Photograph of Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), author unknown. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

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Rae Greiner, “1909: The Introduction of the Word ‘Empathy’ into English”

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Suzanne Keen, “‘Altruism’ Makes a Space for Empathy, 1852″

David Rettenmaier
Oct 1897 to Nov 1897


Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson, “Beauty and Ugliness”

Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson publish “Beauty and Ugliness” in The Contemporary Review as a two-part essay.

Articles

">Irena Yamboliev, “Christopher Dresser, Physiological Ornamentist”

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">Morna O’Neill, “On Walter Crane and the Aims of Decorative Art”

">Jill R. Ehnenn, “On Art Objects and Women’s Words: Ekphrasis in Vernon Lee (1887), Graham R. Tomson (1889), and Michael Field (1892)”

David Rettenmaier
Apr 1904

"Recent Aesthetics"

Photo of Vernon LeeVernon Lee’s essay, "Recent Aesthetics," in The Quarterly Review provides a detailed account of recent developments in psychological aesthetics, including a discussion of Theodor Lipps’s Spatial Aesthetics and Optical Illusion (1897) and his use of the concept of Einfühlung. Image: Photograph of Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), author unknown. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

Articles

Rae Greiner, “1909: The Introduction of the Word ‘Empathy’ into English”

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Suzanne Keen, “‘Altruism’ Makes a Space for Empathy, 1852″

David Rettenmaier
1912


Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson, Beauty and Ugliness and Other Studies in Psychological Aesthetics

Figure 14. “Honeysuckle Pattern from Greek Vases,” drawn by Clementina Anstruther-Thomson, from Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson’s _Beauty and Ugliness_ (1912).Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson publish Beauty and Ugliness and Other Studies in Psychological Aesthetics.

Image: “Honeysuckle Pattern from Greek Vases,” drawn by Clementina Anstruther-Thomson, from Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson’s Beauty and Ugliness (1912).

Articles

">Irena Yamboliev, “Christopher Dresser, Physiological Ornamentist”

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">Morna O’Neill, “On Walter Crane and the Aims of Decorative Art”

">Jill R. Ehnenn, “On Art Objects and Women’s Words: Ekphrasis in Vernon Lee (1887), Graham R. Tomson (1889), and Michael Field (1892)”

">Scott C. Thompson, “On G. H. Lewes’s Problems of Life and Mind, 1874—79″

David Rettenmaier
1924


Clementina Anstruther-Thomson, Art and Man, edited by Vernon Lee

Clementina Anstruther-Thomson publishes Art and Man, edited by Vernon Lee.

Articles

">Irena Yamboliev, “Christopher Dresser, Physiological Ornamentist”

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David Rettenmaier

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