Sophia Lee
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Standard Name: Lee, Sophia
Birth Name: Sophia Priscilla Lee
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'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 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 |
Author summary | Harriet Lee | HL
, Romantic-period novelist and dramatist, is remembered primarily for the fiction collection Canterbury Tales, in which her sister Sophia
shared. |
Textual Features | Anna Maria Mackenzie | AMM
's opening address To the Readers of Modern Romance says that ancient romance was put paid to by the new source of amusement . . . struck out by Henry Fielding
and Richardson
(to... |
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 |
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
,... |
Textual Features | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The first volume packs in many historical or semi-historical events. Earl Godwin
murders Ethelred
's son Alfred Ætheling
at Guildford Castle; Henry I
's only legitimate son and heir dies by drowning in 1120... |
Occupation | E. Nesbit | A few years later she believed, as if she had entered into one of her own fantasies for children, that she had found out the Shakespeare cipher, which comes out as definitely as the result... |
Textual Features | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
's unusual historical novel, which appeared several years before anything comparable by Sydney Morgan
, Christian Isobel Johnstone
, or Sir Walter Scott
, seems to carry within itself the seeds of the national... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amelia Opie | Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO
positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | While visiting Bath, HLP
met Sophia
and Harriet Lee
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 312 |
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 |
Author summary | Anna Maria Porter | Though she also wrote poetry and other genres, AMP
's name rests on her almost thirty historical romances (totalling 54 volumes). Many had US editions and French translations. She tends to focus on male rather... |
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... |
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