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(Review /
Canterbury Tales: for the Year 1797, by
Harriet Lee,
Sophia Lee)
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Monthly Mirror /JAS, 1797 |
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vol 4 p223 |
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Geoffrey Chaucer is undoubtedly the literary parent of the present Canterbury Tales in prose. The author is sister to the ingenious lady whose portrait adorns one of the numbers of this miscellany. The work contains only four tales, though the narrators are represented to be seven in number; of course three remain to be told the ensuing winter. Miss Lee discovers considerable talent for the delineation of character; her style is easy and unaffected, and agreeably varied so as to make each party appear a distinct story-teller. This art is one of the great accomplishments of the novelist. The tales themselves are extremely amusing, and afford us every reason to expect much higher entertainment from the same quarter.
[complete]. Provided by Julie Shaffer, July 1999.
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