Eliza (Buckminster) Lee (1792–1864) was an American author, the daughter of Joseph Buckminster. She was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; was educated by her father and brother, Joseph Stevens Buckminster; married a Thomas Lee of Boston; became a writer; and was felicitous in her descriptions of New England life. She wrote, notably: Sketches of New England Life (1837); Naomi, or Boston Two Hundred Years Ago (1848); and memoirs of her father and brother (1849). She translated from the German, wrote a life of Jean Paul (1842), and published an historical novel, Parthenia, the Last Days of Paganism (1858).[1]

References

  • Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Lee, Eliza" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  1. ↑ LEE, ELIZA BUCKMINISTER (August 5, 1858). PARTHENIA: THE LAST DAYS OF PAGANISM. Ticknor and Fields – via Internet Archive.


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