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Sophie Gee

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January 01, 1974 in Australia

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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 Milton to Jane Austen, as well as on the history of satire. She...more

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Life’s Mantras

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 »

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Books by Sophie Gee

Average rating: 3.09 · 709 ratings · 181 reviews · 2 distinct works

	The Scandal of the Season 3.04 avg rating — 656 ratings — published 2007 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, Sophie Gee (Introduction), Aubrey Beardsley (Illustrations) 3.47 avg rating — 2,316 ratings — published 1717 — 40 editions	My rating:

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