The Ghostly and the Imaginative in Art

Vernon lee's output really dipped for a while after mary robinson announced her engagement in 18 87. Lee had always been prone to anxiety and ill es, and over the years she'd also had a series of mental breakdowns. For almost ten years, especially the more academic ones, were previously published essays. In 18 90, le published a collection of four supernatural stories called hauntings. She writes about how the dread of this terrible secret is so much worse than whatever the reality can be.