🇬🇧” Miss Paget is six foot tall. Enormous legs and hands. Rather short dress, almost shocking. Big gestures, wide smile. She says whatever comes into her head. Otherwise her face and smile are quite girlish, all in all a good boy, or rather a good fellow”

A witty multilinguistic portrait of #VernonLee from the diary of Zsigmond Justh, a Hungarian writer, who met Lee in Paris in 1888

It was such a pleasure to introduce my freshly launched FWO-funded research project on #VernonLee and her “healthy aesthetics” at the #HUSSE2025 🇭🇺 🇬🇧 conference, organized by the University of Szeged ☀️