A Fanny Fern Reader (eBook)

Selections by a Pioneering Nineteenth-Century Woman Journalist

Fanny Fern (Autor)

Emily E. VanDette (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
308 Seiten
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9853-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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 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. A Fanny Fern Reader 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2024
• Einführung: Emily E. VanDette
• Zusatzinfo: Total Illustrations: 0
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4384-9853-5 / 1438498535
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-9853-9 / 9781438498539