Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fanny Fern (American Women Writers)

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.

Fern portrays a mid-nineteenth century woman who becomes the incarnartion of the American individualist, something regarded as exclusively for men.

• The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit (Penguin Classics)
• Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (Penguin Classics)
• Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Penguin Classics)
• The Coquette (Early American Women Writers)
• Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon (Early American Women Writers)
• The Blithedale Romance (Oxford World's Classics)
• Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York
• Daisy Miller (Dover Thrift Editions)
• Imperium in Imperio (Modern Library Classics)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin