Lee's Life and Work

During her 53 years writing vernon, lee wrote more than 30 works of non fiction. She also had ongoing relationships and lengthy correspondences with people like h g Wells,. edith wharton and mary cassott. In 19 20, she published satan the waster, a philosophic war trilogy. Not long before her death, she told her own literary executor that she felt like, quote, an alien, having no ties either of nation, blood, class or profession.