Though she sold more books than her contemporary Harriet Beecher Stowe and was the highest paid and most published writer in the 1850s and 1860s, few outside of academia have ever heard of Fanny Fern ...
BRATTLEBORO — Have you ever heard of Fanny Fern? From the 1850s to her death in the 1872 she was one of the most popular and well-paid newspaper columnists in the United States. Her given name was ...
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