Sidney Lee

Standard Name: Lee, Sidney

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Anne Thackeray Ritchie
In London ATR connected or re-connected with friends including Kipling , Robert Louis Stevenson , Sidney Lee , Arnold Bennett , and Rhoda Broughton .
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
260-1, 272
Friends, Associates Amy Levy
They included Olive Schreiner , the future Beatrice Webb , Dollie Maitland Radford , Margaret Harkness , Clementina Black (whose sister Constance had been a school friend of AL ), and Eleanor Marx . Through...
Leisure and Society May Crommelin
MC was a member of the Albemarle Club .
Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research, 1979, 2 vols.
vol. 1
She also belonged to the Society of Authors , and acted as a steward (along with over a hundred other luminaries including Walter Besant
Occupation Marie Corelli
Her guardianship of Shakespeare 's memory extended to public opposition of the Baconian theory that emerged in the early twentieth century: the belief that Shakespeare was not the author of the works attributed to him...

Timeline

April 1891: Sidney Lee (born Solomon Lazarus Levi, later...

Writing climate item

April 1891

Sidney Lee (born Solomon Lazarus Levi , later knighted) became editor of the Dictionary of National Biography; he had become an assistant editor in 1883 and joint editor with Leslie Stephen in 1890.
Stewart, Alan. “Solomon Lazarus Levi and Dr Roderigo Lopez”. Early Modern Lives: Biography and Autobiography, Renaissance and Seventeenth Century, London, 27 June 2002.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Texts

Lee, Sidney. “Miss Marie Corelli: Stratford Memories”. Times, No. 43633, p. 20.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908, 22 vols. plus supplements.