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.
Oval, head-and-shoulders stipple engraving of Sophia Lee by William Ridley after Sir Thomas Lawrence, published 1797. She is wearing a tall, turban-style white cap over her curled and powdered hair, and a layered cloak over a pale, tightly-laced bodice with a kerchief reaching to her throat and fastened with a bow. Her name ("Miss Lee") is written below.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Susanna Haswell Rowson
This novel covers a historical span from Christopher Columbus through scenes in New Hampshire in 1645 to the lives of the twin heroine and hero, descendants of Columbus, ten generations after him in Philadelphia in...
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...
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...
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...
Occupation Leah Sumbel
She received rave reviews for this first appearance, as Mrs Cadwallader in The Author (a burlesque portrayal of a woman writer). Later that summer she swashbuckled as Macheath in a famous transvestite production of Gay
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
Her protagonist, Theresa Morven, has until three years before the story opens been buried in a French convent at the behest of her stepmother, whom, however, she steadfastly refuses to hate. (Her own mother died...
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 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.

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