Sophia Lee

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...

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...

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 ,...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...