Lisa Anne Fletcher

Lisa (nickname, "Lizzie") Anne Stewart was born in Ashby, Massachusetts, December 27, 1844. When she was two years old, her father died, and when she was 16, her mother died. She was an only child. From earliest childhood, she showed an almost equal fondness for music, painting and poetry. ==Career==

In 1865, at the age of 20, the newly-wed Fletcher, now living in Manchester, New Hampshire, contracted diphtheria in its most severe form. In her later years, she was bedridden, and worked in a reclining position. She kept a large correspondence, partly through the Shut-in Society. She wrote thousands of letters, She was a local secretary of the Audubon Society. Fletcher conducted a wide correspondence with nature lovers, and bird lovers in particular. ==Personal life==

In 1864, she married Edwin Samuel Fletcher (1883–1923), of Manchester, since which time her home was in that city. Lisa Anne Fletcher died in Manchester, New Hampshire, July 13, 1905. ==Selected works==

• Beside Still Waters (New York, Anson D.F. Randolph & Company, 1899) ==References==