Eliza Lee

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). Provided by Wikipedia