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 Biography of Sara Payson Willis Parton
5,074 words, approx. 17 pages
 Sara Payson Willis Parton, known to her readers as Fanny Fern, was the first American woman newspaper columnist and the most highly paid newspaper writer of her time. Her popular columns appeared regularly for twenty-one years and were reprinted... summary from source:
Biography of Sara Payson Willis Parton
2,497 words, approx. 8 pages
"The woman writes as if the devil was in her," said Nathaniel Hawthorne (letter to William D. Ticknor, 2 February 1855) of Sara Payson Willis Parton, who was known to the world as Fanny Fern, the first American woman newspaper columnist and the... summary from source:
Biography of Sara Payson Willis Parton
2,120 words, approx. 7 pages
One of America's first woman newspaper columnists. Sara Payson Willis, using the name Fanny Fern, wrote weekly from 1851 to 1872, primarily for the New York Ledger. Her columns were widely reprinted, and several of her ten books of essays were... 
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 Fanny Fern Information
1,938 words, approx. 7 pages
 Fanny Fern (July 9, 1811-October 10, 1872) was the pseudonym of Sara Willis Parton. She was a popular columnist, humorist, novelist, and author of children's stories in the 1850s-1870s. Her immense popularity has been attributed to her conversational...
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 Women and Language Fanny Fern and Sui Sin Far: the beginning of an Asian American voice.
09/22/1996: 3,163 words, approx. 11 pages Chinese American writer Edith Maude Eaton, or Sui Sin Far, emulated pioneer author Sara Payson Willis Parton, or Fanny Fern, as her model throughout her literary career. Aside from having pen names derived from a plant, both writers directly attacked racial prejudice and male... summary from source:
Legacy "Pious Cant" and Blasphemy: Fanny Fern's Radicalized Sentiment
04/30/2001: 7,604 words, approx. 25 pages "Pious Cant" and Blasphemy: Fanny Fern's Radicalized Sentiment For contemporary readers who find nineteenth-century culture smotheringly conventional, Fanny Fern seems an enigmatically modern voice -- funny, courageous, and disrespectful. She criticizes traditional Christian ministers, the "listless and blundering clerical expositors -- many of...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Claire C. Pettengill
11,611 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following essay, Pettengill examines newspaper and novel writing in the mid-nineteenth century and shows how Fern's work in these two genres at times blurred the distinction between them.
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Critical Essay by Ann D. Wood
10,420 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Wood discusses women's writing in mid-nineteenth-century America, with particular emphasis on Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall and how the novel deviated from what was considered “appropriate” writing for women.
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Critical Essay by Joyce W. Warren
8,728 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Warren evaluates two of Fern's works—her serialized novella “Fanny Ford” and her second novel, Rose Clark. Warren argues that one of the most significant aspects of the novella is its social criticism—Fern confronted such issues as the need for educational reform, the plight of women workers, the necessity of improved child-rearing methods, and the unjust conditions in a patriarchal society. According to Warren, the most valuable aspects of Rose Cl...
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