Fanny Fern (1811–1872)
Autore di Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
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Opere di Fanny Fern
Folly As Its Flies; Hit At 1 copia
“A Law More Nice Than Just” 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 255 copie
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Collaboratore — 83 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Parton, Sara Willis (final married name)
- Altri nomi
- Willis, Sarah Payson (birth name)
Fern, Fanny (nom de plume) - Data di nascita
- 1811-07-09
- Data di morte
- 1872-10-10
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Portland, Maine, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Istruzione
- Hartford Female Seminary
Saugus Female Seminary - Attività lavorative
- columnist
journalist
humorist
children's writer - Relazioni
- Willis, Nathaniel Parker (brother)
Parton, Ethel (granddaughter) - Organizzazioni
- Sorosis
- Breve biografia
- Fanny Fern was the pen name of Sara Willis, born in Portland, Maine. She spent her youth in Boston, where her father founded a religious newspaper. She seems to have inherited her interest in journalism from him. In 1837, she married Charles Eldredge, a bank clerk; but when he died in 1846, soon after the death of the eldest of their three daughters, she was reduced to relative poverty. In 1849 she married Samuel Farrington, a Boston merchant; they quickly separated. With the need to earn a living, she tried sewing and teaching, and then published a collection of sketches called Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio (1853), under the name Fanny Fern, that became an instant bestseller. By 1855, she was the highest-paid columnist in the USA, commanding the huge sum of $100 per week for her New York Ledger column. She also had great success as a humorist, novelist, and author of children's stories. In 1856, she married James Parton and the couple lived in a brownstone in New York City with one of her surviving daughters. Fanny Fern's fictional autobiography Ruth Hall (1854) has become a popular subject among feminist literary scholars.
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- Opere
- 18
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 464
- Popolarità
- #53,001
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 71
- Preferito da
- 1
It is by excerpts from Fern Leaves that she is represented here, although other of her texts appear elsewhere in the archive. Outspoken and satirical, "Fanny Fern" made some reviewers very uncomfortable (she was, for example, the first woman to go on record praising Whitman's poetry), but she almost invariably delighted readers. She writes from within the values of mid-century sentimental culture, but usually has a mischievous glint rather than a tear in her eye. http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/sentimnt/fernhp.html… (altro)