Sophia Lee (1750-1824) was an English novelist and dramatist. She was the daughter of John Lee, actor and theatrical manager. Her first piece, The Chapter of Accidents, a three-act opera based on Denis Diderot"s Le Pere de Famille, was produced by George Colman the Elder at the Haymarket Theatre in 1780 and was an immediate success. When her father died in 1781, Lee spent the proceeds of the opera on establishing a school at Bath, where she made a home for her sisters Anne and Harriet. Her novel The Recess; or, a Tale of Other Times (1783) was a historical romance; and the play Almeyda: Queen of Grenada (1796) was a long tragedy in blank verse, which opened at Drury Lane in 1796 but ran for only four nights. With her sister Harriet Lee she wrote a series of Canterbury Tales (1797). Other works included: The Life of a Lover (1804) and Ormond; or, The Debauchee (1810).