Ida Louisa Lee, historian and poet, was born at Kelso, New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

. She was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Royal Geographical Society

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 (F.R.G.S.) and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society

Royal Australian Historical Society

The Royal Australian Historical Society is a voluntary organisation founded in Sydney, Australia in 1901 to encourage Australians to understand more about their history...

 (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 Lee wrote a number of historical texts, some of which contain previously unpublished material.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

Suffolk

Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

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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)

External links

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