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LEE, Eliza Buckminster, author, born in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1794; died in Brookline, Massachusetts, 22 June, 1864. She was the daughter of Reverend Joseph Buckminster, from whom, and from her brother. Joseph S. Buckminster, she acquired a classical education and a fondness for literary pursuits. She married Thomas Lee, of Boston, and passed the greater part of her life in that city and in its vicinity. Her career as an author began with "Sketches of New England Life" (Boston, 1837), which was followed by "Delusion" (1839). She then published a translation from the German of the "Life of Jean Paul Richter" (New York, 1840), and "Walt and Vult, or the Twins" (1845), from Richter's "Flegeljahre." Her other writings are "Naomi, or Boston Two Hundred Years Ago" (Boston, 1848); "Memoir of Dr. Joseph Buckminster and of his Son, Reverend Joseph Stevens Buckminster" (1849); "Florence, the Parish Orphan" {1850); "Parthenia, or the Last Days of Pagan sin" (1858); mid a translation of Berthold Auerbach's "Barefoot Maiden" (1860).
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