Elizabeth Lee (writer)
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Elizabeth Lee was a biographer and translator; secretary of the English Association
; sister of Sidney Lee
, and contributed to the monthly magazine The Library.
Lee wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography
, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
English Association
The English Association is a British association dedicated to furthering the study of English language and literature in schools, higher education institutes and amongst the public in general....
; sister of Sidney Lee
Sidney Lee
Sir Sidney Lee was an English biographer and critic.He was born Solomon Lazarus Lee at 12 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London and educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in modern history in 1882. In the next year he became assistant-editor of the...
, and contributed to the monthly magazine The Library.
Lee wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography
Dictionary of National Biography
The Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885...
, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
Dictionary of National Biography
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- Emmeline Charlotte Elizabeth Stuart-Wortley
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- Charlotte Ann Waldie
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Translations
- Jean Jules Jusseran, The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare (1890)