Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher.

Maurice Hewlett (1861-1923), English novelist

Henry James (1843-1916), American writer

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish writer

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Pulitzer Prize-winning English novelist

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)--philosopher, aesthetician, historian, and translator. Highly admired by Lee for his prose style.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), poet and philosopher. Imaginary Conversations, a collection of dialogues between both historical and mythological beings, is his most notable work and the first cited in Lee's essay.

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Suspira de Profundis, amongst other writings on aesthetics and addiction.

An excellent edition: De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings. Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 2013.

George Meredith (1829-1909); English novelist

Northumberland County, Northeastern England

An aphorism written by poet and playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). English translation: "That which you have inherited from your fathers, earn it in order to own it."

John Lane (1854–1925) and Charles Elkin Mathews (1851–1921) collaborated to form a publishing company called The Bodley Head in 1887. Due to disagreement about the type of material that was being published, the business partnership ended in 1894. John Lane was established in 1896.

The majority of the company's financial records is housed in the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

1913's *The Beautiful * elucidates Lee's understanding of psychological aesthetics in terms of her own framework. Link to the full text of that book is available here.

Likely reference to Lee's own philosophy on memory. 1913's The Beautiful considers each individual's aesthetic experience to be mediated by their own memories.