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The Invention of Empathy

Museum Secrets by Ashmolean Museum

Jan 13, 20217:31Arts

Podcast host Lucie Dawkins takes a look at John Singer Sargent’s drawing of Vernon Lee in the Ashmolean Collection. Vernon was a genderqueer trailblazer who invented the word ‘empathy’ in the English language. Portrait o...

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The Invention of Empathy is an episode from Museum Secrets by Ashmolean Museum. Podcast host Lucie Dawkins takes a look at John Singer Sargent’s drawing of Vernon Lee in the Ashmolean Collection. Vernon was a genderqueer trailblazer who inv...

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