Here lived the sisters Sophia and Harriet Lee, writers. Described as ‘charming’ by Hester Piozzi, Harriet wrote one of the earliest gothic dramas The Mysterious Marriage; or the Hiership of Roselva which the London stage refused to put on. Whilst living in Clifton, Harriet wrote an adaptation of Kruitzner, which she had written before Byron published his. On the publication of his Werner in November 1822 she sent her five-act play The Three Strangers (1826) to Covent Garden which was accepted immediately. Sophia Lee, playwright and novelist, died here on the 13th March, 1824, and is buried in St Andrew’s Churchyard (now Birdcage Walk). Harriet remained in this house until her own death in 1851.
