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A Suffragist Satirizes July 4th Celebrations
Fannie Fern (1811-1872) was the pen name of Sara Willis Parton, a New England writer whose ridicule of antebellum gender expectations won her wide popularity. This short sketch uses humor to point out the many ways that nineteenth-century women [...]
Item Type: Newspaper/Magazine
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)