![]() ![]() This volume gathers together for the first time almost one hundred selections of her best work as a journalist. Based on the author's life, the novel reflects her spirit of practical feminism-that a woman was only truly independent when she was financially independent.įanny 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. In it, Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton) portrays a mid-nineteenth-century woman who realizes the American Dream solely on her own becoming the incarnation of the American individualist-regarded at that time as a role designed exclusively for men. ![]() ![]() When Ruth Hall was originally published in 1855, it caused a sensation. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear may have previous owner's name inside. ![]()
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