Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Prose, translated and edited by Colton Valentine

Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Prose

Translated and edited by Junior Fellow Colton Valentine

This volume, translated and edited by Colton Valentine, presents a selection of fiction, open letters, and essays by Victorian writer Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), originally published in French, Italian, and German. Exploring cosmopolitanism, multilingualism, gender, sexuality, and the fin de siècle, it is the first modern critical edition of these works and also includes the first comprehensive bibliography of works by Lee published in languages other than English.

Published September 14, 2026, by Modern Humanities Research Association