Author: Fanny Fern
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775561097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Essayist and newspaper columnist Fanny Fern enjoyed a rapid -- and highly unlikely -- rise to fame after an early life beset by tragedy and misfortune. Soon after accepting the position that established her as the highest-paid female writer in the United States, Fern began work on Ruth Hall, a highly autobiographical novel that paralleled her own life experiences in many regards. Today, scholars and critics agree that the novel is an exceptionally well-written exploration of what life as a female literary icon was like in the late nineteenth century.
Ruth Hall
Author: Fanny Fern
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775561097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Essayist and newspaper columnist Fanny Fern enjoyed a rapid -- and highly unlikely -- rise to fame after an early life beset by tragedy and misfortune. Soon after accepting the position that established her as the highest-paid female writer in the United States, Fern began work on Ruth Hall, a highly autobiographical novel that paralleled her own life experiences in many regards. Today, scholars and critics agree that the novel is an exceptionally well-written exploration of what life as a female literary icon was like in the late nineteenth century.
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775561097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Essayist and newspaper columnist Fanny Fern enjoyed a rapid -- and highly unlikely -- rise to fame after an early life beset by tragedy and misfortune. Soon after accepting the position that established her as the highest-paid female writer in the United States, Fern began work on Ruth Hall, a highly autobiographical novel that paralleled her own life experiences in many regards. Today, scholars and critics agree that the novel is an exceptionally well-written exploration of what life as a female literary icon was like in the late nineteenth century.
Another New Book by Fanny Fern
Author: Derby & Miller (Auburn, N.Y.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Ruth Hall and Other Writings
Author: Fanny Fern
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813511689
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Fanny Fern was one of the most popular American writers of the mid-nineteenth century, the first woman newspaper columnist in the United States, and the most highly paid newspaper writer of her day. This volume gathers together for the first time almost one hundred selections of her best work as a journalist. Writing on such taboo subjects as prostitution, venereal disease, divorce, and birth control, Fern stripped the façade of convention from some of society's most sacred institutions, targeting cant and hypocrisy, pretentiousness and pomp.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813511689
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Fanny Fern was one of the most popular American writers of the mid-nineteenth century, the first woman newspaper columnist in the United States, and the most highly paid newspaper writer of her day. This volume gathers together for the first time almost one hundred selections of her best work as a journalist. Writing on such taboo subjects as prostitution, venereal disease, divorce, and birth control, Fern stripped the façade of convention from some of society's most sacred institutions, targeting cant and hypocrisy, pretentiousness and pomp.
Fanny Fern
Author: Joyce W. Warren
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813517643
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Fanny Fern is a name that is unfamiliar to most contemporary readers. In this first modern biography, Warren revives the reputation of a once-popular 19th-century newspaper columnist and novelist. Fern, the pseudonym for Sara Payson Willis Parton, was born in 1811 and grew up in a society with strictly defined gender roles. From her rebellious childhood to her adult years as a newspaper columnist, Fern challenged society's definition of women's place with her life and her words. Fern wrote a weekly newspaper column for 21 years and, using colorful language and satirical style, advocated women's rights and called for social reform. Warren blends Fern's life story with an analysis of the social and literary world of 19th-century America.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813517643
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Fanny Fern is a name that is unfamiliar to most contemporary readers. In this first modern biography, Warren revives the reputation of a once-popular 19th-century newspaper columnist and novelist. Fern, the pseudonym for Sara Payson Willis Parton, was born in 1811 and grew up in a society with strictly defined gender roles. From her rebellious childhood to her adult years as a newspaper columnist, Fern challenged society's definition of women's place with her life and her words. Fern wrote a weekly newspaper column for 21 years and, using colorful language and satirical style, advocated women's rights and called for social reform. Warren blends Fern's life story with an analysis of the social and literary world of 19th-century America.
Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-folio
Author: Fanny Fern
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Folly as it Flies
Author: Fanny Fern
Publisher:
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Fresh Leaves
Author: Fanny Fern
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752340010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Fresh Leaves by Fanny Fern
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752340010
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Fresh Leaves by Fanny Fern
Ginger-snaps
Author: Fanny Fern
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Cultures of Letters
Author: Richard H. Brodhead
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226075266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Richard H. Brodhead uses a great variety of historical sources, many of them considered here for the first time, to reconstruct the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the militantly hierarchical high culture of the post-Civil War decades, and the literary culture of post-emancipation black education. Moving across a range of writers familiar and unfamiliar, and relating groups of writers often considered in artificial isolation, Brodhead describes how these socially structured worlds of writing shaped the terms of literary practice for the authors who inhabited them.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226075266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Richard H. Brodhead uses a great variety of historical sources, many of them considered here for the first time, to reconstruct the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the militantly hierarchical high culture of the post-Civil War decades, and the literary culture of post-emancipation black education. Moving across a range of writers familiar and unfamiliar, and relating groups of writers often considered in artificial isolation, Brodhead describes how these socially structured worlds of writing shaped the terms of literary practice for the authors who inhabited them.
Domesticity with a Difference
Author: Nicole Tonkovich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781604738483
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A study of works by four professional women of the nineteenth century who prescribed domestic lives for others of their sex
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781604738483
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A study of works by four professional women of the nineteenth century who prescribed domestic lives for others of their sex