Sophia Lee

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...

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...

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...

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...

EG 's final novel, The Child from the Sea, presents the theme of a secret royal marriage in historical times though unrecorded by history.

This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548—on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...

BH followed here the recipe popularised by Sophia Lee in The Recess: interweaving the imaginary history of a young person . . . with the important and interesting detail of historic facts, which are...

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 In 1790 AML found Mariana Starke 's unpublished The British Orphans indelicate and Starke 's The Widow of Malabar showy but...

Charlotte, eldest sister of Sophia and HL , created a local scandal by marrying a man whom they considered her social inferior.

The second volume of Canterbury Tales appeared; this time the author was not Harriet but Sophia Lee .

The third volume of Canterbury Tales appeared, bearing the names of both Harriet and Sophia Lee .

HL , Romantic-period novelist and dramatist, is remembered primarily for the fiction collection Canterbury Tales, in which her sister Sophia shared.

HL 's mother, Anna Sophia Lee , pursued her own career as an actress.

Her elder sister Sophia , in addition to taking a major role in running the family, became a schoolmistress, playwright, and novelist , as did Harriet.

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...