Fresh Leaves

by Fanny Fern

Fanny Fern [pseud.]

Michigan Historical Reprint Series

This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.

338 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1857

About the author

Fanny Fern, born Sara Willis (July 9, 1811 – October 10, 1872), was an American newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist, and author of children's stories in the 1850s-1870s. Fern's great popularity has been attributed to her conversational style and sense of what mattered to her mostly middle-class female readers. By 1855, Fern was the highest-paid columnist in the United States, commanding $100 per week for her New York Ledger column.

A collection of her columns published in 1853 sold 70,000 copies in its first year. Her best-known work, the fictional autobiography Ruth Hall (1854), has become a popular subject among feminist literary scholars.

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