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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Haswell Rowson | In this humorous poem the author draws on her first-hand knowledge, as an actor and singer, with the London stage. She marshals thirty-four of it actors and writers to appear before Apollo, who metes out... |
Textual Production | Sophia Lee | One of the last postponements, in spring 1796, resulted from the illness of Sarah Siddons, who was to star in it along with her brothers. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xxxiii |
Textual Production | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | The year after Gonzalvo of Cordova, Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
wrote her next historical tragedy, Pedarias, a Tragic Drama, basing her work this time on Les Incas by Jean-François Marmontel Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, and her sister the Countess of Bessborough
had almost finished a tragedy they had adapted from Harriet Lee
's Kruitzner, the German's Tale. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 331 |
Textual Production | Sophia Lee | SL
contributed items to the three earlier volumes of Canterbury Tales, of which her sister Harriet
wrote the rest. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xlvii |
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... |
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... |
Occupation | Sophia Lee | |
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 | |
Instructor | Ann Radcliffe | |
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Harriet Lee |