Fannie Isabelle Sherrick Wardell (born 31 May, fl. 1860 – 1880) was an American poet, essayist, and columnist, best remembered for her 46 romantic and philosophical poetry, that were published in several volumes. Influenced by and a contemporary of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, she was a descendant of Moses Cleaveland and a native of St. Louis, and worked as a teacher.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
A character in Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady may be referring to Sherrick's poem "Summer Rain".[9]
References
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- ^ Hills Morgan, Horace, ed. (1880). The Western: A Journal of Literature, Education and Art. Vol. 6. Western publishing association. p. 147.
- ^ Hyde, William; Conard, Howard Louis (1899). Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis: A Compendium of History and Biography for Ready Reference. Vol. 3. Southern History Company. p. 1523. OCLC 1933545.
- ^ Cleveland, Edmund Janes, ed. (1899). The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Trace, in Both the Male and Female Lines, the Posterity of Moses Cleveland ... [and] of Alexander Cleveland ... with Numerous Biographical Sketches; and Containing Ancestries of Many of the Husbands and Wives, Also a Bibliography of the Cleveland Family and a Genealogical Account of Edward Winn of Woburn, and of Other Winn Families. Hartford, Conn., Printed for the subscribers by the Case, Lockwood & Brainard company. pp. 1616–1617. ISBN 978-0-598-46390-6.
- ^ Peterson's Magazine. C.J. Peterson. 1884. pp. 76, 157, 412.
- ^ The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Vol. 1–15. Pennsylvania State University Press. 1881. p. 105.
- ^ Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C. Vol. 35. Washington D. C.: Library of Congress. 1903. p. 502.
- ^ King, Moses (1882). The Poets' Tributes to Garfield: A Collection of Many Memorial Poems, with Portrait and Biography. Cambridge: M. King. p. 99. OCLC 1175974949.
- ^ James, Henry (2016). The portrait of a lady. Internet Archive. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-00400-9.
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