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Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
A 19th-century American poet, essayist, and columnist, she is remembered for romantic and philosophical verse that often turns inward to questions of love, ambition, and feeling. Her best-known collection, Love or Fame; and Other Poems, helped keep her work in circulation long after her own era.
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Love or Fame; and Other Poems
by Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
About the author
Active in the later 19th century, Fannie Isabelle Sherrick Wardell was an American poet, essayist, columnist, and teacher. Sources consistently describe her as a writer of romantic and reflective poetry, and as a contemporary of Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
She is especially associated with Love or Fame; and Other Poems (1880), a collection that reflects the emotional and philosophical tone readers still connect with her work. Reference sources also note her ties to St. Louis and identify her as a descendant of Moses Cleaveland.
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