Introduction

Biography

Fannie re­ceived the name Exile in me­mo­ry of her birth­place, to which her mo­ther had fled from Mor­gan­town, West Vir­gin­ia, dur­ing the Am­er­ican ci­vil war (in which Fa­nnie’s law­yer father served as a lieutenant col­o­nel).

After the war, the Heck fa­mi­ly moved to Ral­eigh, North Ca­ro­li­na. Fan­nie at­tend­ed the Hob­good Se­mi­na­ry girls’ school there, and lat­er the Holl­ins In­sti­tute near Ro­a­noke, Vir­gin­ia.

She taught Sun­day School at the First Bap­tist Church in Ra­leigh, and went on to be­come vice-pre­si­dent of the Sou­thern So­ci­o­lo­gi­cal Cong­ress, a mem­ber of the North Ca­ro­li­na So­cie­ty of So­cial Work, pre­si­dent of the Wo­man’s Mis­sion­ary Un­ion of North Ca­ro­li­na (1886–1915).

She al­so served as pre­si­dent of the Bap­tist Con­ven­tion’s Wo­man’s Mis­sion­ary Un­ion (1892–94, 1895–99 and 1906–15), and helped found the Wo­man’s Mis­sion­ary Union Train­ing School (lat­er re­named the Car­ver School of Mis­sions and So­cial Work), Lou­is­ville, Ken­tuc­ky.

Works

• In Roy­al Ser­vice, 1913
• Everyday Glad­ness, 1915
• Sunrise and Oth­er Po­ems, 1916
• The Pa­geant of the Gold­en Rule, 1916