Sophia 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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 ,...

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...

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...

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...

Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other...

In the later stages of the novel, Anthony is in love with Lady Maria, an unrecorded daughter of Mary, Queen of Scots (a plot twist which must ultimately be owed to Sophia Lee and The...

While visiting Bath, HLP met Sophia and Harriet Lee .

Though she also wrote poetry and other genres, AMP 's name rests on her almost thirty historical romances (totalling 54 volumes). Many had US editions and French translations. She tends to focus on male rather...

There they are reported as being neighbours and friends of another pair of literary sisters, Sophia and Harriet Lee .

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...