Harriet Lee, Romantic-period novelist and dramatist, is remembered primarily for the fiction collection
Canterbury Tales, in which her sister
Sophia shared.
Milestones
1757 HL was born in
London, one of the younger members of a family of whose survivors to adulthood included her three sisters and a brother.
By March 1786 HL anonymously published her first book:
The Errors of Innocence, a five-volume epistolary novel.
1 August 1851 HL died of heart failure at
Clifton, having long outlived all her sisters.
