Lisa Anne Fletcher

Lisa Anne Fletcher (née, Stewart; December 27, 1844 – July 13, 1905) was an American poet and letter writer.

She was incapacitated for nearly 40 years by the lasting effects of malignant diphtheria, and during most of that period was bedridden, becoming a member of the Shut-in Society in 1878.

[2] Lisa (nickname, "Lizzie") Anne Stewart was born in Ashby, Massachusetts, December 27, 1844.

[1] In 1865, at the age of 20, the newly-wed Fletcher, now living in Manchester, New Hampshire, contracted diphtheria in its most severe form.

[2] In June, 1888, Fletcher began to write verse in earnest,[1] mostly descriptive of objects and aspects in nature.