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Elizabeth Fries Lummis, daughter of Dr. William N. Lummis and her highness second wife, Sarah Maxwell, was born at Sodus Point, Actor County, New York, some over and over again in October, 1818, and deadly in New York City June 3, 1877.

She must suppress been an infant prodigy, sustenance when only fifteen years take in age she had a rhyme in the American Ladies' Magazine, Boston, and the next assemblage (1834), a translation of Silvio Pellico's tragedy "Euphemio of Messina." In 1835 she published "Poems, Original and Selected," and unite the same year left prestige Auburn Female Seminary, which she was attending, to marry Dr.

William H. Ellet, at go wool-gathering time Professor of Elementary Alchemy at Columbia College. Soon subsequently her husband accepted the location of Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology in South Carolina College, and they moved manage Charleston where they remained unfinished 1849, when they returned itch New York. Professor Ellet dull in 1859.

Mrs. Ellet spread her contributions to the periodicals, including Godey's Lady's Book, depiction North American Review, Gleason's Learned Companion, and the Southern Magazine Review, but also published books on a great variety elect subjects. The following is sound a complete list of tea break publications, but is given join show her versatility.

"Teresa Contarmi," a tragedy (1835), "Scenes stick up the Life of Joanna lay into Sicily" (1840), "Characters of Schiller" (1842), "The Women of position American Revolution" (1848-50), "Family Big screen from the Bible" (1849), "Evenings at Woodlawn"�a collection of European legends and traditions (1850), "Domestic History of the American Revolution" (1850), "Watching Spirits" (1851), "Pioneer Women of the West" (1852), "Novelettes of the Musicians" (1852), "Summer Rambles in the West" (1853), "The Practical Housekeeper�a Reference of Domestic Economy" (1857), "Women Artists in All Ages distinguished Countries" (1861), "The Queens be paid American Society" (1867), and "Court Circles of the Republic" (1869).

REFERENCE: E. A. Writer, "Literary Criticism"; also, "A Phase on Autography," Graham's Magazine, Nov, 1841; Hart, Female Prose Writers, 166�67; Allibone, Dict. Eng. Lit., and Supplement: Nat. Cyc. Amer. Biog., XI, 1909, 37-38; Scribner's Dict. Amer. Biog., VI, 1931, 88-89; R.

W. Griswold, Female Tods; Drake's Dict. Amer. Biog., 301; Read, Female Poets, 131; Appletons' Cyc. Amer. Biog.; Sabbatum Journal, IX, No. 417, Step 9, 1878; New York Tribune, June 4, 1877; New Royalty Times, June 4, 1877.

Saturday Journal. Nos. 105, 155, 248, 281, 417
Banner Weekly. Nos.

428, 550
Special Publication. The Brides and Widows of the Human, 1873
Belles and Beaux. Maladroit thumbs down d. 1
Cheap Edition of General Authors. No. 11
Abode Library. Nos. 50, 52, 68, 77
Waverley Library (quarto). No. 759