"Beauty and Ugliness"

Vernon 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.