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Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
A 19th-century American poet, essayist, and columnist, best remembered for romantic and philosophical verse. Her surviving work includes Love or Fame; and Other Poems, which still gives readers a glimpse of her thoughtful, lyrical style.
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Love or Fame; and Other Poems
by Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
About the author
Writing in the late 1800s, she was an American poet, essayist, and columnist whose work centered on romantic and reflective themes. Sources about her are limited, but she is remembered chiefly for her poetry rather than for a large public literary career.
Her best-known book is Love or Fame; and Other Poems, a collection that has remained accessible through Project Gutenberg. The poems suggest an interest in love, ambition, memory, and inner life, with a voice shaped by the sentimental and philosophical currents of her era.
Wikipedia identifies her as Fannie Isabelle Sherrick Wardell and notes that she was active around the 1880s and 1890s. I could not confirm a suitable portrait image from the available reliable pages, so none is included here.