Fanny Fern
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Fanny Fern, was an American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist in the 1850s to 1870s. Her popularity has been attributed to a conversational style and sense of what mattere
Fern c. 1866
Fanny Fern's grave
James Parton
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James Parton was an English-born American biographer who wrote books on the lives of Horace Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, and contributed three bi
Fanny Fern
…because of her divorce, she tried to keep her name secret. The former book sold 70,000 copies in its first year, "a phenomenal figure for the time." James Parton, a biographer and historian who edited Home Journal, the magazine owned by Fern's brother Nathaniel (known as N.P. Willis), was impressed by Fern's…
Parton c. 1870