Ida Lee

For the actress, see Ida Lee (actress).

Ida Louisa Lee, (1865 - 1943), historian and poet, was born at Kelso, New South Wales. She was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (F.R.G.S.) and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society (Hon. F.R.A.H.S.). Lee wrote a number of historical texts, some of which contain previously unpublished material.

On a visit to England, Lee married Charles John Bruce Marriott (1861-1936) on 14 October 1891 at the parish church, Felixstowe, Suffolk.

Bibliography

Non-fiction

• The Coming of the British to Australia, 1788-1829'' (1906)
• Commodore Sir John Hayes (1912)
• The Logbooks of the 'Lady Nelson' (1915)
• Captain Bligh's Second Voyage to the South Sea (1920)
• Early Explorer's in Australia (1925)
• The Voyage of the 'Caroline' from England to Van Dieman's Land and Batavia (1927)

Poetry

• Songs and Verse (189-)
• The Bush Fire and Other Verses (1897)

References

• Adelaide, Debra (1988) Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide, London, Pandora
• Australian Dictionary of Biography online

External links

• Works by Ida Lee at Project Gutenberg
• ebooks by Ida Lee at Project Gutenberg of Australia
• ebook by Ida Lee Early Explorers in Australia at The Allan Cunningham Project