Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
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John Lee
Standard Name: Lee, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Lee | SL
's father, John Lee
, was a quarrelsome and impecunious actor. The year of her birth he acted at Richmond and Covent Garden
, with an interim desertion to Drury Lane
, where, however... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Lee | HL
's father, actor and manager John Lee
, had a penchant for making enemies and running up debts. His work kept him constantly on the move from place to place. He died poor. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Lee | John Lee
, actor, manager, and father of two future novelists, died at Bath aged fifty-six, leaving practically no money. |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Sophia Lee | SL
had the idea for it while in debtors' prison with her father
. Contemporary rumour said she had written it to get him out of prison; but at that time she apparently made no... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Elspeth Huxley | Philippa Scott found it such fun to have Elspeth on hand researching and writing. Peter Scott had left 72 volumes of diaries, and her publisher, Faber and Faber
, paid £5,000 for two years' research... |
| Occupation | Sophia Lee | Their father
being seriously ill, money needed, and SL
's first literary earnings to hand, she and her sisters opened Mesdames Lees, Ladies' Boarding School
, in Bath. Skedd, Susan. “Women Teachers and the Expansion of Girls’ Schooling in England, c. 1760-1820”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 101-25. 106 Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii. xxix |
| Wealth and Poverty | Sophia Lee | SL
's father
was committed to the King's Bench Prison for debt; she accompanied him there for a time. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993. |
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