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.
Oval, head-and-shoulders stipple engraving of Sophia Lee by William Ridley after Sir Thomas Lawrence, published 1797. She is wearing a tall, turban-style white cap over her curled and powdered hair, and a layered cloak over a pale, tightly-laced bodice with a kerchief reaching to her throat and fastened with a bow. Her name ("Miss Lee") is written below.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 In 1790 AML found Mariana Starke 's unpublished The British Orphans indelicate and Starke 's The Widow of Malabar showy but...
Intertextuality and Influence Barbara Hofland
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...
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.
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—on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...
Textual Production Elizabeth Goudge
EG 's final novel, The Child from the Sea, presents the theme of a secret royal marriage in historical times though unrecorded by history.
It is unlikely that EG knew the novel that first...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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