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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Lucy Aikin | She said she designed this genre as a new one: she planned to interlace her material about the manners of the age, the state of literature, arts, &c. with as slender a thread of political... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Deverell | |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Goudge | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548 Green, Sarah. The Royal Exile; or, Victims of Human Passions: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century. J. J. Stockdale. 1: 1 |
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... |
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's unpublished The British Orphans indelicate and Starke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... |
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. |
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... |
Textual Features | Harriet Lee | 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... |
Reception | Harriet Lee | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Harriet Lee | 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... |
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, p. ix - lii. xxxiii, xlvii |
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.
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.
17 March 1677: Nathaniel Lee's tragedy The Rival Queens...
Writing climate item
17 March 1677
Nathaniel Lee
's tragedyThe Rival Queens opened on stage.
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
).
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.
1801: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...
Writing climate item
1801
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
's tragedyMaria Stuart, first produced the previous year, was printed in J. C. Mellish
's English translation as Mary Stuart.
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.
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.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. T. Cadell, 1785.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. Editor Alliston, April, University Press of Kentucky, 2000.