THE LIFE OF A LOVER. IN A SERIES OF LETTERS

by Sophia Lee

$2,000 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

London: Printed for G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1804. 8vo. 6 volumes: xi, 320; 336; 314; 363; 298; 376 pp. Sophia Lee 1750-1824 was born of theatrical parents, and, as the oldest child, took care of her sisters when their mother died at an early age; her first work, a play, The Chapter of Accidents, was staged at the Haymarket Theatre in 1780, received with great applause and was published the same year. With the proceeds she founded a school

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