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Sophie Gee

Born

in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

April 02, 1974

Website

http://www.sophiegee.com

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature Studies

Influences

Evelyn Waugh ...more

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Sophie Gee was born in Sydney in 1974 and grew up in Paddington. She attended the University of Sydney, where she graduated in 1995 with a first-class honors degree in English. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on Evelyn Waugh, still one of her favorite writers.

After university, Sophie won a scholarship to Harvard, where she did a Ph.D. in English literature. She wrote her doctoral thesis about filth, pollution and satire in the eighteenth century. She graduated from Harvard in 2002 and in fall of that year she was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of English at Princeton. She teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on eighteenth-century literature from John Milton to Jane Austen, as well as on the history of sat ...more

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My first novel The Scandal of the Season is a romantic comedy that I discovered by accident. I was writing my Ph.D about the famously misanthropic 18thC English poet Alexander Pope and I realized that a clandestine, upper-class romance lay behind his satirical poem The Rape of the Lock. I decided to recreate it. In my novel the love-affair takes the hero and heroine by surprise — they think of Read more of this blog post »

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Published on November 17, 2008 00:00

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Average rating: 3.19 · 2,030 ratings · 330 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, Sophie Gee (Introduction), Aubrey Beardsley (Illustrations) 3.54 avg rating — 17,405 ratings — published 1717 — 240 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scandal of the Season 3.11 avg rating — 1,496 ratings — published 2007 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Barbarous Feast: Eating and Writing in the Eighteenth-Century World 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850) by Kate Parker (Editor), Courtney Weiss Smith (Editor), Margaret Doody (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Biology of Vascular Diseases by Luis Filgueira (Editor), Sarah Harris, Liesel Hardy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Be not too quick to cast aside those things that make you very different from your fellow men, [...] If you look and think and dress exactly as they do, nobody will remember who you are.”
― Sophie Gee, The Scandal of the Season

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