Laurus Nobilis

Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life 1909 is a collection of essays by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar of the Italian Renaissance Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life follows in the footsteps of Walter Pater a pioneering art historian of Victorian England. A principled feminist and committed pacifist Lee was virtually blacklisted by critics and publishers following her opposition to the First World War.