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See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
LEE, See also:SOPHIA (1950-1824) , See also:English novelist and dramatist, daughter of See also:John Lee (d. 1781), actor and theatrical manager, was See also:born in See also:London. Her first piece, The See also:Chapter of Accidents, a one-See also:act-See also:opera based on See also:Diderot's Pere de famille, was produced by See also:George See also:Colman at the Haymarket See also:Theatre on the 5th of See also:August 1780. The proceeds were spent in establishing a school at See also:Bath, where See also:Miss Lee made a See also:home for her sisters. Her subsequent productions included The See also:Recess, or a See also:Tale of other Times (1785), a See also:historical See also:romance; and Almeyda, See also:Queen of See also:Grenada (1796), a tragedy in See also:blank See also:verse; she also contributed to her See also:sister's See also:Canterbury Tales (1797). She died at her See also:house near See also:Clifton on the 13th of See also:March 1824.
Her sister, HARRIET LEE (1757-1851), published in 1786 a novel written in letters, The Errors of Innocence. See also:Clara See also:Lennox followed in 1797. Her See also:chief See also:work is the Canterbury Tales (1797-1805), a See also:series of twelve stories which became very popular. See also:Lord See also:Byron dramatized one of the tales, " Kruitzner," as See also:Werner, or the See also:Inheritance. She died at Clifton on the 1st of August 1851.
End of Article: LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
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