Fanny Forrester (1852 – August 1889) was an English poet of Irish heritage.
She was the eldest daughter of Michael, a stonemason, and the poet Ellen Forrester (née Magennis).
Her father died when Forrester was 8 years old, resulting in her mother writing to support the family.
[5] Forrester's obituary on 12 August 1889 in the Manchester Weekly Times noted that she had an unhappy marriage, with her sister commenting that her life "was not a happy one ...
[3] In April 2022, her biography was published by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, alongside that of her mother, poet Ellen Forrester, and brother, writer and Fenian campaigner Arthur Marshall Forrester.