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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Eliza Buckminster Lee (1794–1864)

Lee, Eliza Buckminster. An American prose-writer; born in Portsmouth, NH, in 1794; died in Brookline, MA, June 22, 1864. Her ‘Sketches of New England Life’ appeared in 1837, and was followed by ‘Delusion’ (1839); a translation from the German of the ‘Life of Jean Paul Richter’ (1842); ‘Naomi; or, Boston Two Hundred Years Ago’ (1848); ‘Parthenia; or, The Last Days of Paganism’ (1858); and a translation of Berthold Auerbach’s ‘Barefoot Maiden’ (1860).