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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | Her protagonist, Theresa Morven, has until three years before the story opens been buried in a French convent at the behest of her stepmother, whom, however, she steadfastly refuses to hate. (Her own mother died... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Margaretta Larpent | Criticism has an even freer rein in the later than in the earlier diaries. In 1790 AML
found Mariana Starke
's unpublished The British Orphans indelicate and Starke
's The Widow of Malabar showy but... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Mew | Her essay addresses several works by women writers: Sophia Lee
's The Recess, Emily Finch
's Last Days of Mary Stuart, Charlotte Yonge
's Unknown to History, and Harriet Martineau
's The Anglers of the Dove. Mew, Charlotte. Collected Poems and Prose. Editor Warner, Val, Carcanet and Virago. 378-9, 381 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Goudge | |
| Textual Production | Harriet Lee | The second volume of Canterbury Tales appeared; this time the author was not Harriet
but Sophia Lee
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 23 (1798): 204 |
| Textual Production | Harriet Lee | The third volume of Canterbury Tales appeared, bearing the names of both Harriet
and Sophia Lee
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 26 (1799): 186 |
| Textual Production | Harriet Lee | The volume opens with a frame story by Sophia
, of snowbound travellers in an inn at Canterbury, whiling away the time by story-telling. The five volumes contained twelve tales of varying lengths, all... |
| Textual Features | Lucy Aikin | She said she designed this genre as a new one: she planned to interlace her material about the manners of the age, the state of literature, arts, &c. with as slender a thread of political... |
| Textual Features | Anna Maria Mackenzie | AMM
's opening address To the Readers of Modern Romance says that ancient romance was put paid to by the new source of amusement . . . struck out by Henry Fielding
and Richardson
(to... |
| Textual Features | Susanna Haswell Rowson | This novel covers a historical span from Christopher Columbus
through scenes in New Hampshire in 1645 to the lives of the twin heroine and hero, descendants of Columbus, ten generations after him in Philadelphia in... |
| Textual Features | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The first volume packs in many historical or semi-historical events. Earl Godwin
murders Ethelred
's son Alfred Ætheling
at Guildford Castle; Henry I
's only legitimate son and heir dies by drowning in 1120... |
| Textual Features | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
's unusual historical novel, which appeared several years before anything comparable by Sydney Morgan
, Christian Isobel Johnstone
, or Sir Walter Scott
, seems to carry within itself the seeds of the national... |
| 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 | Harriet Lee | It consisted of two long items, The Officer's Tale. William Cavendish by HL
, and The Clergyman's Tale. Pembroke by Sophia Lee
. Harriet's story opens vividly on her hero's childhood experience of loss. Sent... |
| Reception | Harriet Lee | She had submitted it two years earlier when Byron's play was staged, but the production of hers was delayed, possibly on account of Sophia Lee
's death in the interim. It was published the following year. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Timeline
July 1567: Mary Queen of Scots miscarried of twins—or,...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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 tragedy The Rival Queens...
Writing climate item
17 March 1677
Nathaniel Lee
's tragedyThe Rival Queens opened on stage.
1 February 1759: William Robertson published at London his...
Building item
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...
Women writers item
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...
Writing climate item
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.
Texts
Lee, Sophia. A Hermit’s Tale. T. Cadell, 1787.
Lee, Sophia. Almeyda, Queen of Granada. Cadell and Davies, 1796.
Lee, Harriet, and Sophia Lee. Canterbury Tales. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1805.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
Lee, Sophia. The Chapter of Accidents. T. Cadell, 1780.
Lee, Sophia. The Life of a Lover. G. and J. Robinson, 1804.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. T. Cadell, 1785.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. Editor Alliston, April, University Press of Kentucky, 2000.