A HERMIT'S TALE:; Recorded by his own hand and found in his cell (a poem).
London: T. Cadell, 1787. First Edition. 4to, pp. [iv], 40. Removed, a very good clean copy. Scarce. Item #31623
Lee (1750-1824) was a novelist and playwrite born in London, the daughter of two actors. After the death of her father, Lee invested her earnings from her playwriting in a school in Bath,which she ran with her sister Harriet until 1803. "Lee broke new ground in historical fiction in The Recess ... Its heroines, daughters of Mary Queen of Scots by a secret marriage, at first hidden from the world in a cave/mansion and later playing their parts unnoticed among the famous, suggest women's invisible role in history"[Blain p. 644].
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