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Charlotte, eldest sister of Sophia
and HL
, created a local scandal by marrying a man whom they considered her social inferior.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
xxxiii, xlvii
Family and Intimate relationships
Harriet Lee
HL
's mother, Anna Sophia Lee
, pursued her own career as an actress.
(Further information about her and about Harriet's father is given in Sophia Lee
's entry.)
Family and Intimate relationships
Harriet Lee
Her elder sister Sophia
, in addition to taking a major role in running the family, became a schoolmistress, playwright, and novelist , as did Harriet.
Fictionalization
Queen Elizabeth I
The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen...
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987.
312
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
Queen Elizabeth I
The flight of Mary, Queen of Scots
from her own country in May 1568 into Elizabeth's domain caused the English queen much heart-burning. Mary (Elizabeth's cousin) was an obvious pretender to the throne, representing the...
Instructor
Ann Radcliffe
It is often said that AR
attended the school run by Sophia
and Harriet Lee
and their sisters (of whom she was later a friend or acquaintance) in Bath. But no evidence supports the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Amelia Opie
Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO
positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mrs F. C. Patrick
In the later stages of the novel, Anthony is in love with Lady Maria, an unrecorded daughter of Mary, Queen of Scots (a plot twist which must ultimately be owed to Sophia Lee
and The...
Intertextuality and Influence
Agnes Strickland
Her historical romance The Pilgrims of Walsingham, 1835, is written on the Canterbury Tales model (as practised originally by Chaucer
and more recently by Harriet Lee
and her sister
). AS
's pilgrims who...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Deverell
In a prologue MD
jokes about her own daring to judge Queen Elizabeth. Her language is formal and stilted, but she has a strong dramatic grasp of the complex and shifting feelings of Mary
and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Ann Yearsley
After her deliberately egotistical preface AY
erases herself to present her novel as a manuscript written by her male protagonist, Henry, imprisoned in a castle on an island; his tale begins during the night of...
Timeline
July 1567
Mary Queen of Scots
miscarried of twins—or, according to an unsubstantiated rumour, bore a live daughter who was despatched to a French convent.
Nathaniel Lee
's tragedyThe Rival Queens opened on stage.
1 February 1759
William Robertson
published at London his History of Scotland (which became a source for The Recess by Sophia Lee
).
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.
