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.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Mary Russell Mitford | 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
,... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Lee | Charlotte, eldest sister of Sophia
and HL
, created a local scandal by marrying a man whom they considered her social inferior. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii. xxxiii, xlvii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Lee | HL
's mother, Anna Sophia Lee
, pursued her own career as an actress. (Further information about her and about Harriet's father is given in Sophia Lee
's entry.) |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet 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. |
Fictionalization | Queen Elizabeth I | 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... |
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 | Anna Maria Porter | There they are reported as being neighbours and friends of another pair of literary sisters, Sophia
and Harriet Lee
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Harriet Lee |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | While visiting Bath, HLP
met Sophia
and Harriet Lee
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987. 312 |
Friends, Associates | Queen Elizabeth I | 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... |
Instructor | Ann Radcliffe | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | BH
followed here the recipe popularised by Sophia Lee
in The Recess: interweaving the imaginary history of a young person . . . with the important and interesting detail of historic facts, which are... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Yonge | 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. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Yearsley | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Agnes Strickland | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs F. C. Patrick | 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... |
Timeline
July 1567: Mary Queen of Scots miscarried of twins—or,...
National or international item
July 1567
Mary Queen of Scots
miscarried of twins—or, according to an unsubstantiated rumour, bore a live daughter who was despatched to a French convent.
Fraser, Antonia. Mary, Queen of Scots. Franklin Library, 1981.
371
9-27 July 1575: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favourite...
National or international item
9-27 July 1575
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
, favourite of Queen Elizabeth
, threw a particularly magnificent entertainment for her at Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. Editor Alliston, April, University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
345n14
17 March 1677: Nathaniel Lee's tragedy The Rival Queens...
Writing climate item
17 March 1677
Nathaniel Lee
's tragedy The Rival Queens opened on stage.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
1 February 1759: William Robertson published at London his...
Building item
1 February 1759
William Robertson
published at London his History of Scotland (which became a source for The Recess by Sophia Lee
).
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
Beckford, William. Azemia. Sampson Low, 1797, 2 vols.
1: 21; 2: 43, 61, 236ff
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 20 (1797): 470
1801: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...
Writing climate item
1801
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
's tragedy Maria Stuart, first produced the previous year, was printed in J. C. Mellish
's English translation as Mary Stuart.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Texts
Lee, Sophia. A Hermit’s Tale. T. Cadell, 1787.
Lee, Sophia. Almeyda, Queen of Granada. Cadell and Davies, 1796.
Lee, Harriet, and Sophia Lee. Canterbury Tales. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1805, 5 vols.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
Lee, Sophia. The Chapter of Accidents. T. Cadell, 1780.
Lee, Sophia. The Life of a Lover. G. and J. Robinson, 1804, 6 vols.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. T. Cadell, 1785, 3 vols.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. Editor Alliston, April, University Press of Kentucky, 2000.