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Ruth Hall and Other Writings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

Ruth Hall and Other Writings

Fanny Fern was one of the most popular American writers of the mid-nineteenth century, the first woman newspaper columnist in the United States, and the most highly paid newspaper writer of her day. This volume gathers together for the first time almost one hundred selections of her best work as a journalist. Writing on such taboo subjects as prostitution, venereal disease, divorce, and birth control, Fern stripped the façade of convention from some of society's most sacred institutions, targeting cant and hypocrisy, pretentiousness and pomp.

Ask Any Woman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

Ask Any Woman

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Ruth Hall
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Ruth Hall

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1855
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Ruth Hall - A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 205

Ruth Hall - A Domestic Tale of the Present Time

"Ruth Hall - A Domestic Tale of the Present Time" is an 1854 novel by American writer Fanny Fern. The story revolves around Ruth Hall—a fictionalized version of the author—and follows her happy marriage, destitute widowhood, and eventual success as a newspaper columnist. Sara Payson Willis (1811–1872), also known as Fanny Fern, was an American novelist, humorist, newspaper columnist, and children's writer during the 1850s and 1870s. Fern's novels became incredibly popular and, by 1855, she was the highest-paid US columnist. In 1854, Fern signed a contract to write a full-length novel, and within just a few months, she had finished "Ruth Hall". One of her most celebrated works and a popular subject among feminist literary scholars, "Ruth Hall", is highly recommended for those interested in feminism and feminist literature. Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a brand new edition complete with the introductory essay "Sara Payson Willis Parton" by Frances Elizabeth Willard & Mary Ashton Rice Livermore.

Dear Dr. Stopes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Dear Dr. Stopes

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Ruth Hall
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

Ruth Hall

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER LXXYII. A ND now our heroine had become a regular business woman. She did not even hear the whir--whir of the odd lodger in the attic. The little room was littered with newspapers, envelopes, letters opened and unopened, answered and waiting to be answered. One minute she might be seen sitting, pen in hand, trying, with knit brows, to decipher some horrible cabalistic printer's mark on the margin of her proof; then writing an article for Mr. Walter, then scribb...

Ruth Hall
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Ruth Hall

"[...]that she could not see "where the laugh came in." Equally astonishing to the unsophisticated Ruth, was the demureness with which they would bend over their books when the pale, meek-eyed widow, employed as duenna, went the rounds after tea, to see if each inmate was preparing the next day's lessons, and the coolness with which they would jump up, on her departure, put on their bonnets and shawls, and slip out at the side-street door to meet expectant lovers; and when the pale widow went the rounds again at nine o'clock, she would find them demurely seated, just where she left them, apparently busily conning their lessons! Ruth wondered if all girls were as mischievous, and if fathers and mothers ever stopped to think what[...]".

The Life and Beauties of F. F.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220
Ruth Hall
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Ruth Hall

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997-02-01
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  • Publisher: Penguin

In Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her family, and her struggle to make a living as a writer. Written as a series of short vignettes and snatches of overheard conversations, it is as unconventional in style as in substance and strikingly modern in its impact.

At Home in the City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

At Home in the City

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: UPNE

A lucidly written analysis of urban literature and evolving residential architecture.