Background
She was born in Dudley, Massachusetts Her verse is collected in After the Ball (1875), Her Lover"s Friend (1879), New Songs and Ballads (1886), Legends and Lyrics (1890).
She was born in Dudley, Massachusetts Her verse is collected in After the Ball (1875), Her Lover"s Friend (1879), New Songs and Ballads (1886), Legends and Lyrics (1890).
These are briskly told and, like her verses, appeal to the sentiment of the broader reading public. Her eulogy on Vasco Nunez de Balboa, first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the isthmus of what is today Panama, exemplifies her poetic style.