Publication is exactly "Fearing, Blanche. The Island Lily. An Idly of the Islas of Shoals. Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1897."
Author and lawyer Lillian Blanche Fearing was born in Davenport, Iowa, on November 27, 1863. Despite being blind from birth, Lillian achieved much during her lifetime. Lillian's obituary in the Rock Island Argus notes, in part:"At the age of 8 she…