LEE, Eliza (Buckminster) (1792-1864). An American author, the daughter of Joseph Buckminster. She was born at Portsmouth, N. H., was well educated by her father and brother, Joseph Stevens Buckminster; married a Thomas Lee of Boston; became a writer, and was unusually felicitous in her descriptions of New England life. She wrote: Sketches of a New England Village (1838); 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 Richter (1842), and published an historical novel, Parthenia, the Last Days of Paganism (1858).