Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Harriet Lee
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Standard Name: Lee, Harriet
Birth Name: Harriet Lee
HL
, Romantic-period novelist and dramatist, is remembered primarily for the fiction collection Canterbury Tales, in which her sister Sophia
shared.
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Haswell Rowson | In this humorous poem the author draws on her first-hand knowledge, as an actor and singer, with the London stage. She marshals thirty-four of it actors and writers to appear before Apollo, who metes out... |
Textual Production | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | The year after Gonzalvo of Cordova, Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
wrote her next historical tragedy, Pedarias, a Tragic Drama, basing her work this time on Les Incas by Jean-François Marmontel |
Textual Production | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, and her sister the Countess of Bessborough
had almost finished a tragedy they had adapted from Harriet Lee
's Kruitzner, the German's Tale. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 331 |
Textual Production | Sophia Lee | SL
contributed items to the three earlier volumes of Canterbury Tales, of which her sister Harriet
wrote the rest. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xlvii |
Textual Production | Sophia Lee | One of the last postponements, in spring 1796, resulted from the illness of Sarah Siddons, who was to star in it along with her brothers. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xxxiii |
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 Features | Sophia Lee | An Advertisement claims that The Recess is a version, in modernised English, of a manuscript memoir from the reign of Elizabeth I
. It breaks new ground for the English novel in various ways: it... |
Textual Features | Marguerite de Navarre | Whereas Boccaccio
's tale-tellers had retired to a country house while the plague raged in town, and those in Chaucer
's Canterbury Tales were on pilgrimage, Marguerite de Navarre
's travellers are stranded at an... |
Occupation | Sophia Lee | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Lamb | M. B.'s purpose in story-telling is not moral improvement but making little girls feel better (the youngest is seven): cheering them up since, newly sent to boarding school, they are crying for home; alleviating their... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Agnes Strickland | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | It seems that CR
's outline of her abandoned plan for linked tales dealing with national character was an inspiration for Harriet Lee
's similar design in her Canterbury Tales. Apart from this, Reeve's... |
Instructor | Ann Radcliffe | |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | CS
and Sarah Rose
developed a highly personal epistolary relationship from January 1804, though they never met. Sarah's husband, Samuel Rose
, was a solicitor involved in attempts to settle the Smith trust. The Roses... |
Friends, Associates | Sophia Lee | A bluestocking-style brilliant Constellation Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 185 Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 185 |
Timeline
June 1793: An enterprising printer and freemason, John...
Writing climate item
June 1793
An enterprising printer and freemason, John Wharlton Bunney
, put out the first number of The Free-Mason's Magazine, or General and Complete Library.
By 22 July 1797: William Beckford published a second and more...
Women writers item
By 22 July 1797
William Beckford
published a second and more marked burlesque attack on women's writing: Azemia: A Descriptive and Sentimental Novel. Interspersed with Pieces of Poetry.
Texts
Lee, Harriet, and Sophia Lee. Canterbury Tales. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1805.
Lee, Harriet. The Errors of Innocence. G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1786.
Lee, Harriet. The Mysterious Marriage. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798.
Lee, Harriet. The New Peerage. G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787.