Lucinda Lee Orr

Lucinda Lee Orr is known for Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782, a diary written as a young woman and later published in 1871. The Library of Congress lists the work as a record of Virginia social life and customs, and Project Gutenberg and the Online Books Page both preserve it as her principal surviving work.

Reference sources identify her as born Lucinda Lee in Virginia and later married to John Dalrymple Orr. Her journal was addressed to a friend, Polly Brent, and has been valued for its lively glimpses of visits, reading, games, and family connections in late eighteenth-century Virginia.

Because so little biographical information is consistently documented online beyond the journal and her family background, she is remembered less as a public literary figure than as the author of an unusually personal historical record.