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Dorothea Auguste Gunhilde Schrage
A Norwegian-born poet who later made her home in the United States, she is remembered for warm, reflective verse gathered in the 1921 collection Petunia Blossoms: Ballads and Poems. Her work has a gentle, old-fashioned charm, with poems that turn to home life, feeling, and everyday thoughtfulness.
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Petunia blossoms: Ballads and poems
by Dorothea Auguste Gunhilde Schrage
About the author
Dorothea Auguste Gunhilde Schrage was a poet born in 1858 and died in 1939. Sources available for this entry describe her as born in Norway and later living in the United States, where she became known for writing ballads and poems.
She is best known for Petunia Blossoms: Ballads and Poems, published in 1921. Catalog records from Project Gutenberg and The Online Books Page confirm that this is the work most closely associated with her and the one through which modern readers are most likely to encounter her writing.
A brief author note at LibriVox says she was the wife of architect William F. Schrage. Beyond those basic facts, little biographical detail is easy to confirm from reliable public sources, but her surviving poems still offer a clear sense of a writer drawn to sentiment, lyric expression, and the small scenes of ordinary life.