Fanny Fern (born Sara Payson Willis; July 9, 1811 – October 10, 1872), was an American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist in the 1850s to 1870s. Her popularity has been attributed to a conversational style and sense of what mattered to her mostly middle-class female readers.
By 1855, Fern was the highest-paid US columnist, commanding $100 per week for her New York Ledger column.[1] A collection of her columns published in 1853 sold 70,000 copies in its first year. Her best-known work, the fictional autobiography Ruth Hall (1854), has become a popular subject among feminist literary scholars.
FannyFern (born Sara Payson Willis; July 9, 1811 – October 10, 1872), was an American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist in...
her classmates was Sarah P. Willis, who later wrote under the pseudonym FannyFern. In 1832, at the age of 21, Harriet Beecher moved to Cincinnati, Ohio...
included Ethel Lynn Beers, Sylvanus Cobb, Jr. (The Gunmaker of Moscow), FannyFern (whose first column appeared in 1855), William H. Peck, and E. D. E. N...
headstone. However, FannyFern noted that, by 1854, the plot remained unmarked and criticized Samuel Osgood in her book Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-Folio. Samuel...
composer Richard Storrs Willis and his sister Sara wrote under the name FannyFern. Harriet Jacobs wrote her autobiography while being employed as his children's...
1846), attained considerable popularity as a writer under the pen name FannyFern. They were married in 1856. Her works include the novels, Ruth Hall (1854)...
chronologically by birth date John Neal (1793–1876), The Baltimore Telegraph FannyFern (1811–1872), New York Ledger Charlotte Reeve Conover (1855–1940), Dayton...
taught at the school beginning in November 1827. Alumni Rose Terry Cooke FannyFern Annie Trumbull Slosson Virginia Thrall Smith Harriet Beecher Stowe Mary...
Comedians Maria Cummins – The Lamplighter Charles Dickens – Hard Times FannyFern – Ruth Hall Mathilde Fibiger – Minona Frederick Greenwood – The Loves...
Berlant noticed striking similarities in writing by Erma Bombeck and FannyFern, who skewered married life for women in nearly identical ways despite...
century. Contributors included Francis A. Corey, Susan E. Dickinson, FannyFern, Louise Chandler Moulton, Oliver Optic, and John Townsend Trowbridge....
Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids", Herman Melville (1855) Ruth Hall, FannyFern (1855) "The Right of Women to Exercise the Elective Franchise", Agnes...
Journal by John Steinbeck Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin Ruth Hall by FannyFern The Saga of Grettir the Strong The Saga of the People of Laxardal and...
with a Difference: The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, FannyFern, and Margaret Fuller. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi...
Josephine Pollard, Ellen Louise Demorest, Charlotte B. Wilbour, Anne Botta, "FannyFern" Parton, Henry M. Field, Lucy Gibbons, and James T. Field. In January...
September 22 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (born 1801) October 10 – FannyFern, American journalist, novelist and children's writer (born 1811) October...
Philip J. Cozans – Little Eva: The Flower of the South FannyFern – Little Ferns for Fanny's Little Friends Agha Hasan Amanat – Inder Sabha Gustav Freytag...
article by Rosalie Beck, published in Issue #90 in 2006 Warren, Joyce W. FannyFern: An Independent Woman. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press...
Rev. A. D. Mayo, Dr. William Elder, Ednah D. Cheney, Caroline H. Dall, FannyFern, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Frances D. Gage, Hannah Tracy Cutler, Abby H....
Beecher Stowe, American novelist and abolitionist (died 1896) July 9 – FannyFern, American journalist, novelist and children's writer (died 1872) July...
11, 1946 FannyFern : Our Grandmothers' Mentor. New York: New York Historical Society Quarterly, 1954. "Proper Bostonians as Seen by FannyFern." New England...
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