Ruth Hall and Other Writings

Ruth Hall and Other Writings
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : 0813511682
ISBN-13 : 9780813511689
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Book Synopsis Ruth Hall and Other Writings by : Fanny Fern

Download or read book Ruth Hall and Other Writings written by Fanny Fern and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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