Sophia Lee

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 ,...

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.

Charlotte, eldest sister of Sophia and HL , created a local scandal by marrying a man whom they considered her social inferior.

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...

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

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...

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...

While visiting Bath, HLP met 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...

Her historical romance The Pilgrims of Walsingham, 1835, is written on the Canterbury Tales model (as practised originally by Chaucer and more recently by Harriet Lee and her sister ). AS 's pilgrims who...

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...

After her deliberately egotistical preface AY erases herself to present her novel as a manuscript written by her male protagonist, Henry, imprisoned in a castle on an island; his tale begins during the night of...

In its narration of this particular variant on historical fact (a fictional daughter born to Mary and Bothwell), the novel recalls Sophia Lee 's The Recess.

This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548—on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...