Fanny Fern: An Independent Woman

by Joyce W. Warren

Book Overview

Fanny Fern is a name that is unfamiliar to most contemporary readers. In this first modern biography, Warren revives the reputation of a once-popular 19th-century newspaper columnist and novelist. Fern, the pseudonym for Sara Payson Willis Parton, was born in 1811 and grew up in a society with strictly defined gender roles. From her rebellious childhood to her adult years as a newspaper columnist, Fern challenged society's definition of women's place...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081351763X
• ISBN13: 9780813517636
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"