LEE, HANNAH F., 1780-1865; b. Mass.; daughter of Dr. Sawyer, an eminent physician of Newhuryporh She married George G. Lee, of Boston, and for many years devoted her time to literature. In 1835 she published Grace Seymour, a novel, but nearly the whole of the edition was destroyed at the great fire in New York. In 1838, during a season of general financial she published, anonymously, Three Experiments of Lining, a work treating of the morals of domestic life. It met with remarkable success, and was widely circulated in England and other countries. Thirty editions were pub lish4.1 in America. Among her best productions are Old Painters,. Luther and his limes; The Huguenots in Fiance and America; Stories from Life for the Young; and a Memoir of Pierre Toussaint. Ifer own name appeared for the first time, in connection with her writings, in the appendix to Miss Hannah Adams's memoir of herself, edited by Dr. Joseph Tuckernmn.
LEE, HAnniffr, 1756-1851; b. Engladd; daughter of an actor of respectability, who had been bred to the law, and was careful to educate his daughters. She was the
sister of Sophia Lee, with whom she was associated in an academy at Bath, which Sophia had established, called Belvidere House. With her sister she shares the honor of foster ing the talents and predicting the eminence of sir Thomas Lawrence. Having secured a competence by the successful management of the school, ou the retirement of her sister she went to reside with her in the vicinity of Tintern Abbey, and afterward at Clifton, where she died, having survived her sister 27 years. She is chiefly celebrated for the joint authorship with her sister, of the Canterbury 7aie.r (1797-180,5), i.r 5 vols. A_ new edition appeared in New York in 1b57. There arc 12 tabs, 8 of which she wrote. In 1821 her German tale. Kruitzner, was dramatized by Byron, and published, with due acknowledgment, under the title of Werner, or The Inheritance.