┐PARA ╖PAR@ ` /TEXT ` !Ellet, Elizabeth Fries Lummis
1812?╨1877
historical writer
Born in Sodus Point, New York, most probably in October 1812 (some sources give 1818), Elizabeth Lummis began writing verse as a child. She was educated at the Female Seminary in Aurora, New York. In 1834 her translation of Silvio Pellico╒s Euphemio of Messina was published anonymously, and the next year she published Poems, Translated and Original. Probably in 1835 she married William H. Ellet, a professor of chemistry at Columbia College, New York, with whom she moved to Columbia, South Carolina, in 1836. Her Characters of Schiller, 1839, was followed by Scenes in the Life of Joanna of Sicily, 1840, and Rambles About the Country, 1840, and a number of poems and articles on literature for various leading magazines. In 1848 she and her husband returned to New York City.
In that year, after considerable research among authenticated and mainly primary sources, Ellet published Women of the American Revolution in two volumes, to which a third was added in 1850. The work (illustrated by Lilly M. Spencer) sketched the lives of some 160 women who had played a part in or commented on or merely observed the events of the Revolution; it long remained the major work in a theretofore entirely neglected field and enjoyed several successful editions. From related materials she drew Domestic History of the American Revolution, 1850. Others of her books included Evenings at Woodlawn, a collection of German legends, 1849, Family Pictures from the Bible, 1849, Watching Spirits, 1851, Novelettes of the Musicians, 1852, Pioneer Women of the West, similar to her earlier work on the Revolution, 1852, Summer Rambles in the West, 1853, The Practical Housekeeper, 1857, Women Artists in All Ages and Countries, 1859, Queens of American Society, 1867, and Court Circles of the Republic, with Mrs. R. E. Mack, 1869. She was a figure of New York literary society and was the source of some mischievous gossip concerning Edgar Allan Poe and later Rufus W. Griswold. She died in New York City on June 3, 1877.
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