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When Ruth Hall was originally published in 1855, it caused a sensation. In it, Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton) portrays a mid-nineteenth-century woman who realizes the American Dream solely on her own becoming the incarnation of the American individualist-regarded at that time as a role designed exclusively for men. Based on the author's life, the novel reflects her spirit of practical feminism-that a woman was only truly independent when she was financially independent.
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.
This work is complex, full of quirky ironies and subtle sarcasm, and, above all, it is fun!
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Garrett Searcy
reviewed Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fanny Fern on August 06, 2013
Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fanny Fern
I'm delighted to have discovered Fanny Fern. Her novel is a humorous satire of American antebellum society, championing the wrongs of womanhood through the courage and endurance of the heroine Ruth Hall. Fern cleverly uses characters' own speech against themselves, through the sympathy the reader feels for Ruth. Fern's portrayal of women writers was particularly interesting, in the apparent contradictions between Ruth's opinion of writing, the portrayal of Ruth as a writer, and Fern's own authorship.
I have not yet read the newspaper selections that conclude the book, but look forward to doing so. Warren's introduction to the book, is a delightful introduction to Fern's personality, life, and method. This is a wonderful edition.
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