Gilbert’s What Sound of Lofty Praise was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1868.
It seems likely she is poet Isadore Gilbert Jeffery (1840–1919).
The poet married M. J. Jeffery in 1878 (Willard, p. 418), so her maiden name in 1868 would have been Isadore Gilbert.
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