Sophia Lee
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Standard Name: Lee, Sophia
Birth Name: Sophia Priscilla Lee
SL
's other writings, both dramatic and novelistic, are overshadowed by the fame of her novel The Recess.
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 | Harriet Lee | 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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | While visiting Bath, HLP
met Sophia
and Harriet Lee
. 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. 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... |
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 | 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 | |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Yonge | In its narration of this particular variant on historical fact (a fictional daughter born to Mary and Bothwell), the novel recalls Sophia Lee
's The Recess. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548 Green, Sarah. The Royal Exile; or, Victims of Human Passions: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century. J. J. Stockdale, 1811. 1: 1 |
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.
9-27 July 1575
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
, favourite of Queen Elizabeth
, threw a particularly magnificent entertainment for her at Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire.
17 March 1677
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.
1801
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
's tragedyMaria Stuart, first produced the previous year, was printed in J. C. Mellish
's English translation as Mary Stuart.