Fanny Fern Writer
Fanny Fern, born Sara Willis (July 9, 1811 – October 10, 1872), was an American newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist, and author of children's stories in the 1850s-1870s. Fern's great popularity has been attributed to her conversational style and sense of what mattered to her mostly middle-class female readers. By 1855, Fern was the highest-paid columnist in the United States, commanding $100 per week for her New York Ledger column.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.
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- http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss19_main.html
- http://books.google.com/books?id=CUIxjRGdc4QC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Fanny+Fern:+An+Independent+Woman&source=bl&ots=gsOUSzbl15&sig=RvfOz5iPvFv_pb4wj1n7XI_Wuh0&hl=en&ei=D1I3TcunM8H_lgealaCrAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
- http://books.google.com/books?id=UfgPCy3B2MwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Nathaniel+Parker+Willis+and+the+Trials+of+Literary+Fame&source=bl&ots=1fJhBFIEML&sig=TssRcIf9ss5qCZLEdilOxLH2lcU&hl=en&ei=flI3TfC5O4P7lwe3kN3UAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFQQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q&f=false
- http://books.google.com/books?id=xjwBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA143&dq=Fanny+Fern&as_brr=1#PPA141,M1
- http://fannyfern.org
- http://ronevry.com/Fanny_Fern_Stories.html
- http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/fern.html