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Domesticity with a Difference: The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller » Read Now
by Nicole Tonkovich. 230 pgs.

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A study of works by four professional women of the nineteenth century who prescribed domestic lives for others of their sex.
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The Other American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers ("Domesticity and the Economics of Independence: Resistance and Revolution in the Work of Fanny Fern" begins on p. 73) » Read Now
by Joyce W. Warren. 314 pgs.

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...women who were self-assertive, independent, and self-sufficient. The most outspoken of these writers was the journalist Fanny Fern Sara Willis Parton , whose satirical...
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Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature ("Fanny Fern: 'It's a Way I Have When I Can't Find a Razor Handy to Cut my Throat'" begins on p. 48) » Read Now
by Gregg Camfield. 240 pgs.

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...In this rich, exciting new book, Gregg Camfield explores nineteenth-century American humor from the perspective of gender and domestic ideology, challenging recent theory...
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Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930 (Chap. 4 "No Separations in the City: The Public-Private Novel and Private-Public Authorship") » Read Now
by Monika M. Elbert. 310 pgs.

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...Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by
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Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation ("Fanny Fern -- Mrs. Parton" begins on p. 66) » Read Now
by James Parton. 628 pgs.

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...departing, will keep her memory green. FANNY FERN -- MRS. PARTON. BY GRACE GREENWOOD...into French and German. In 1856 Fanny Fern was married to Mr. James Parton...anguish...
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Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930 (Chap. 2 "American Women's Fiction, 1850-1880: Domestic Discourses in the Writings of Fanny Fern, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Wilson") » Read Now
by Martha J. Cutter. 228 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A study of how women writers found ways to sound an authoritative voice in the male-dominated world.
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Criticism and the Color Line: Desegregating American Literary Studies ("The Politics of Mourning: Cultural Grief-Work from Frederick Douglass to Fanny Fern") » Read Now
by Henry B. Wonham. 300 pgs.

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...Work from Frederick Douglass to Fanny Fern 95 Dickson D. Bruce...Work from Frederick Douglass to Fanny Fern," Jeffrey Steele offers compelling...Harriet Wilson, Louisa May...
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Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print (Chap. Two "Cacoethes Scribendi: Women Writers Among the Paying Periodicals") » Read Now
by Ronald Weber. 324 pgs.

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...under her celebrated pen name Fanny Fern. And such literary notables as...probably written in 1851. Sara Payson Willis was trying to break into the...the Home Journal , and...
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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton) (1811-1872)" begins on p. 123) » Read Now
by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 540 pgs.

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As the American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, the influence of women writers of the nineteenth century has been reevaluated. The first book of its kind, this reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 nineteenth-century American women...
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As the American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, the influence of women writers of the nineteenth century has been reevaluated. The first book of its kind, this reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 nineteenth-century American women writers, such as Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Emma Lazarus, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the critical studies examining the writer's works, and a bibliography of works for further consultation.
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The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860 (Chap. 6 "Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall") » Read Now
by Linda M. Grasso. 252 pgs.

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In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. Exploring how black and white nineteenth-century women writers defined, expressed, and...
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In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. Exploring how black and white nineteenth-century women writers defined, expressed, and dramatized anger, Grasso reconceptualizes antebellum women's writing and illuminates an unrecognized tradition of discontent in American literature. She maintains that two equally powerful forces shaped this tradition: women's anger at their exclusion from the democratic promise of America, and the cultural prohibition against its public articulation.
Grasso challenges the common notion that nineteenth-century women's writing is confined to domestic themes and shows instead how women channeled their anger into art that addresses complex political issues such as slavery, nation-building, gender arrangements, and race relations. Cutting across racial and genre boundaries, she considers works by Lydia Maria Child, Maria,W. Stewart, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Wilson as superb examples of the artistry of angry expression. Transforming their anger through literary imagination, these writers bequeathed their vision of an alternative America both to their contemporaries and to subsequent generations.
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The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 ("Fern and Oakes: Independent versus Influential Womanhood" begins on p. 57) » Read Now
by Lyde Cullen Sizer. 348 pgs.

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This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction...
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This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death.
Among the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor.
Sizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a "rhetoric of unity, " giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include.
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