At age 39, in July 1827, she married a man from Brookline, Massachusetts, Thomas Lee, a "moderately wealthy businessman" who was nine years older than she was, and retired early to spend his time on gardening.
In her memoirs of her father and her brother, she recalled, "He was in the habit of addressing familiar questions and simple household orders to his daughters in Latin, and then of explaining them or giving them the dictionary to find them out.
"[5] Her memoir of her father and brother, which a contemporary reviewer called an "affecting and very beautiful delineation of the life and character of these two remarkable men",[6] and continues to be cited by historians of the period.
In Naomi; or, Boston, Two Hundred Years Ago (1848), her title character is a Quaker convert who was raised in England and travels to America to visit her dying mother, a Puritan.
[11] Her Parthenia, the Last Days of Paganism is a historical novel dealing with the Roman emperor Julian; a contemporary reviewer praised it as "the work of an imagination intensely vivid and sight-like", and concluded, "it seems to us that the spirit of the times and the actors may be much better learned from this fictitious narrative, than from any formal history.