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.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | E. Nesbit | A few years later she believed, as if she had entered into one of her own fantasies for children, that she had found out the Shakespeare cipher, which comes out as definitely as the result... |
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... |
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
,... |
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 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... |
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/. |
Literary responses | Harriet Lee | Byron
praised the Canterbury Tales, but in 1913George Saintsbury
asserted that Byron had done so either irresponsibly or impishly. They were, he said, not exactly bad, but also as far as possible from... |
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, p. ix - lii. xxxiii, xlvii |
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 |
Author summary | Harriet Lee | HL
, Romantic-period novelist and dramatist, is remembered primarily for the fiction collection Canterbury Tales, in which her sister Sophia
shared. |
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. |
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 | 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... |
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