A Fanny Fern Reader: Selections by a Pioneering Nineteenth-Century Woman Journalist

by Fanny Fern

Book Overview

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the highest paid and most famous newspaper writer in the US was a woman known to the world as Fanny Fern, the nom de plume of Sara Payson Willis. A Fanny Fern Reader features a selection of Fern's columns, mostly from her years as a weekly columnist for the New York Ledger, along with an introduction that shares the remarkable story of Fern's perseverance and success as a woman in a male-dominated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438498519
• ISBN13: 9781438498515
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"