SOPHIA

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– )
• SOPHIA LEE (1950-1824)
• LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)

LEE (1950-1824)  , English novelist and dramatist, daughter of John Lee (d . 1781), actor and theatrical manager, was born in London . Her first piece, The Chapter of Accidents, a one-act-opera based on Diderot's Pere de famille, was produced by George Colman at the Haymarket Theatre on the 5th of August 1780 . The proceeds were spent in establishing a school at Bath, where Miss Lee made a home for her sisters . Her subsequent productions included The Recess, or a Tale of other Times (1785), a historical romance; and Almeyda, Queen of Grenada (1796), a tragedy in blank verse; she also contributed to her sister's Canterbury Tales (1797) . She died at her house near Clifton on the 13th of March 1824 . Her sister, HARRIET LEE (1757-1851), published in 1786 a novel written in letters, The Errors of Innocence . Clara Lennox followed in 1797 . Her chief work is the Canterbury Tales (1797-1805), a series of twelve stories which became very popular . Lord Byron dramatized one of the tales, " Kruitzner," as Werner, or the Inheritance . She died at Clifton on the 1st of August 1851 .