A Fanny Fern Reader

The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century's most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist. 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'