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
Textual Features Charlotte Smith
CS sets her tales in France just after massacre of St Bartolomew's Eve on 24 August 1572, in the Lake District, in modern Jamaica, and modern Austria-Hungary, somewhat in the manner of...
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 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...
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
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
Her protagonist, Theresa Morven, has until three years before the story opens been buried in a French convent at the behest of her stepmother, whom, however, she steadfastly refuses to hate. (Her own mother died...
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...

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