Ruth Hall (novel)
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| - | :"Back in the middle of the nineteenth century in America, the women were taking the publishing world by storm. Yes, [[Herman Melville]] wrote <em>[[Moby Dick]]</em>, and [[Thoreau]] wrote the enduring classic <em>[[Walden]]</em>, and [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] had himself a modest success with <em>[[The Scarlet Letter]]</em>, which sold a little over 10,000 copies. But the women were wiping the floor with them, bestseller-wise. [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]’s novel <em>[[Uncle Tom’s Cabin]]</em> sold 10,000 copies in the first two weeks of publication, and by the end of the year it would have sold 310,000. But like so much [[women's writing]], no place was reserved in the [[literary canon|canon]] for the other great popular books of that period, and writers like Susan Warner and [[Susanna Cummins]] have dwindled in obscurity until excavating literary critics have recently dug them back up. Amongst their number was [[Sara Willis Eldridge Farrington]], who managed to achieve the accolade of being one of the highest paid writers of her era under the name of [[Fanny Fern]]. She was famous primarily for her journalism, and out of that came her books, most compilations of her articles, but one an autobiographical novel, <em>[[Ruth Hall]]</em>. Like all good bestsellers, the novel <em>Ruth Hall</em> came with controversy attached, as publicity around its publication brought forth the revelation of Fanny Fern’s true identity and the fact that the book told the story of her life. And what a life it was – a good rags to riches tale of a young woman, beset by tragedy and cruel relations who managed to turn her life around for the sake of her children by her writing talents." --[[Litlove]] | + | '''''Ruth Hall: a Domestic Tale of the Present Time''''' is a [[roman à clef]] by [[Fanny Fern]] (pen name of Sara Payson Willis), a popular 19th-century newspaper writer. Following on her meteoric rise to fame as a columnist, she signed a contract in February 1854 to write a full-length novel. She finished ''Ruth Hall'' within a few months, and it was first published in November 1854. |
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Ruth Hall: a Domestic Tale of the Present Time is a roman à clef by Fanny Fern (pen name of Sara Payson Willis), a popular 19th-century newspaper writer. Following on her meteoric rise to fame as a columnist, she signed a contract in February 1854 to write a full-length novel. She finished Ruth Hall within a few months, and it was first published in November 1854.
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