Among her works are the poetry collection, The Bodfish Road (1901),[1] the novel, Idlewise, the novelette, A Daughter of Pharaoh, and a long poem, "The Wind-Flower".
[7][a] Of her parentage and ancestry she wrote:— "I can zig-zag back to a good deal of English, a little Irish, and a probable line of Scotch.
They were, Joel Towle, of fine, slim build, keen intellect, high blood, Universalist belief; and Lois Roberts, robust, genial, level-headed, Quaker-trained.
Father was the youngest of twelve children, a factory-boy, learning all the ins and outs of the trade, and for the greater part of his life supervising a large section.
[3] Of her religious experience, she stated:— "When I was fourteen, on a certain day, all alone in my little room upstairs, I must believe, I gave my heart to Christ, and he drew instantly near to me.
Her taste in literature was correspondingly improved and reformed, so that from "dribbling story papers" she turned to "the sternest truths."
John Greenleaf Whittier was her first favorite, and later, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Robert Burns.
"[9] After a long illness, Frances Brackett Damon died at her home in Dexter, December 13, 1939.