Ruth Hall (novel)
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Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time is a roman à clef by Fanny Fern, a popular 19th-century newspaper writer. Following on her meteoric rise to fame as a columnist, she signed a contract in
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American writer, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Portrait of Willis c. mid-1850s
A young Nathaniel Parker Willis
American Scenery by N. P. Willis with illustration by William Henry Bartlett, 1840
Willis became the highest-paid magazine writer in America.