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Author: Lee, Henry

Biography:

Lee, Henry (1765-1836: WBIS)

Born in Nottingham, he left to become an actor in London after the deaths of both parents; his stepfather, though wealthy, did not provide for him. At 22 he joined a theatre company that travelled mainly in the west of England, but he also performed occasionally in London. Eventually he owned and managed several provincial theatres. He married his first wife, Sarah Jane Keys, who was also an actor, in Salisbury in 1783; she died without children in 1797. Lee and his second wife, a Miss Lloyd whom he married in 1814, had several children. Besides his poems and a farce that he wrote about 1789--and that led him to accuse George Colman the Younger of plagiarism--Lee also published two volumes of memoirs (1830). He died in London. (ODNB 6 Nov. 2019)

 

Books written (7):

Canting, an Eccentric Poem. Interspersed with Tales, Pathetic and Ludicrous . . . . To Which are Added a Few Scraps.

London: J. Richardson and J. Hatchard, 1813

Dash, a Tale.

3rd edn. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1817

Poetic Impressions. A Pocket Book, with Scraps and Memorandums . . . ..

London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1817

Gay's Chair. Poems, never before Printed . . . ..

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820

Gay's Chair. Poems, Never before Printed, . . . With A Sketch of His Life, from the MSS. of the Rev. Joseph Baller, His Nephew . . . . To Which are Added Two New Tales, the World, and Gossip, by the Editor.

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1820

Echoism; a Poem.

London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821

The Manager, a Melo-dramatic Tale.

London: Sherwood, Neeley, and Jones, Simpkin and Marshall, and Lowndes, 1822