active 19th century Frances Lee

Frances Lee is listed in major public-domain library records as an author active in the 19th century. The clearest readily available attribution connects her with An Arrow in a Sunbeam and Other Tales, where she is named together with Sarah Orne Jewett and C. S. Sleight.

Very little personal information could be confirmed during this search, and no reliable modern biographical sketch was found. That usually means readers meet her through the surviving text itself rather than through a well-documented life story.

For that reason, Lee is best approached as one of those partly hidden literary figures whose presence remains in period collections even when the historical record is thin. Her surviving attribution suggests a place within the broad world of 19th-century storytelling for young readers and general audiences.