Sidney Lee
ABOUT SIDNEY LEE
Critic and biographer known for biographies like Life of Queen Victoria . He also wrote more than 800 articles in the Dictionary of National Biography. He published 7 original works throughout his career.
He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford in 1882 with a degree in modern history.
He was given knighthood status in 1911. He has original letters that are kept safe in the John Rylands Library in Manchester.
His sister is teacher and literary critic Elizabeth Lee.
He edited an edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare in 1906.
