Highfill, Philip H., Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
Harriet Lee
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Standard Name: Lee, Harriet
Birth Name: Harriet Lee
HL
, Romantic-period novelist and dramatist, is remembered primarily for the fiction collection Canterbury Tales, in which her sister Sophia
shared.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
was said to have learned to read by the time she was three. In January 1806 she got through fifty-five volumes, including books by Sarah Harriet Burney
, Maria Edgeworth
, Elizabeth Hamilton
,... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Lee | Anna Lee, youngest sister of Sophia
and Harriet
, hanged herself from the top railing of her bed, and died. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Lee | SL
had one elder and two younger sisters. One of them, Harriet
, became a playwright and novelist like herself. |
| Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Maria Porter | There they are reported as being neighbours and friends of another pair of literary sisters, Sophia
and Harriet Lee
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Harriet Lee |
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | CS
and Sarah Rose
developed a highly personal epistolary relationship from January 1804, though they never met. Sarah's husband, Samuel Rose
, was a solicitor involved in attempts to settle the Smith trust. The Roses... |
| Friends, Associates | Sophia Lee | A bluestocking-style brilliant Constellation Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 185 Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 185 |
| Instructor | Ann Radcliffe | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | It seems that CR
's outline of her abandoned plan for linked tales dealing with national character was an inspiration for Harriet Lee
's similar design in her Canterbury Tales. Apart from this, Reeve's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Lamb | M. B.'s purpose in story-telling is not moral improvement but making little girls feel better (the youngest is seven): cheering them up since, newly sent to boarding school, they are crying for home; alleviating their... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Agnes Strickland | |
| Occupation | Sophia Lee | |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Smith | CS
sets her tales in France just after massacre of St Bartolomew's Eve on 24 August 1572, in the Lake District, in modern Jamaica, and modern Austria-Hungary, somewhat in the manner of... |
| Textual Features | Sophia Lee | An Advertisement claims that The Recess is a version, in modernised English, of a manuscript memoir from the reign of Elizabeth I
. It breaks new ground for the English novel in various ways: it... |
| Textual Features | Marguerite de Navarre | Whereas Boccaccio
's tale-tellers had retired to a country house while the plague raged in town, and those in Chaucer
's Canterbury Tales were on pilgrimage, Marguerite de Navarre
's travellers are stranded at an... |
Timeline
June 1793
An enterprising printer and freemason, John Wharlton Bunney
, put out the first number of The Free-Mason's Magazine, or General and Complete Library.
By 22 July 1797
William Beckford
published a second and more marked burlesque attack on women's writing: Azemia: A Descriptive and Sentimental Novel. Interspersed with Pieces of Poetry.
Texts
Lee, Harriet, and Sophia Lee. Canterbury Tales. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1805.
Lee, Harriet. The Errors of Innocence. G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1786.
Lee, Harriet. The Mysterious Marriage. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798.
Lee, Harriet. The New Peerage. G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787.