American author, sister of James Russell Lowell; born in Boston, MA, on the 3rd of December 1810; married to Samuel R. Putnam, a Boston merchant, in 1832; attained distinction as the mistress of many languages; wrote, in conjunction with Miss Peabody, a History of the Constitution of Hungary and Its Relations with Austria (1850); Records of an Obscure Man (1861); The Tragedy of Errors and The Tragedy of Success (1862); dramatic poems illustrative of slavery; was the first to translate from the original Swedish Frederica Bremer’s novel The Neighbors, and contributed to The North American Review and The Christian Examiner.
