A Fanny Fern Reader

<p><b>The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century's most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist.</b></p><p>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. <i>A Fanny Fern Reader</i> features a selection of Fern's columns mostly from her years as a weekly columnist for the <i>New York Ledger</i> along with an introduction that shares the remarkable story of Fern's perseverance and success as a woman in a male-dominated profession. For readers in her own time Fern's frank and unbridled social commentary and boldly satirical voice made her a household name. Fern's subversive and witty commentary about social mores gender roles childhood authorship and family life transcend time and continue to resonate with and entertain readers today. <i>A Fanny Fern Reader</i> is the most extensive collection of Fern's newspaper writings to date and includes several works that have been out of print for over a century making this author's writing on a wide range of issues accessible for readers within and outside of classrooms and academic settings.</p>