Fern, Fanny, 1811-1872

Ginger-Snaps [recurso electrónico] / Fanny Fern - Project Gutenberg, 2012 - Project Gutenberg 40504 .

Dinner-parties -- The bride's new house -- The happy lot of a sexton -- Literary aspirants -- What shall we do for the little children on Sunday? -- My house in the country -- Why wear mourning? -- "Delightful men" -- Choosing presents -- A bid for an editorship -- A sermon to Plymouth pulpit -- Female clerks -- Blue Monday -- The fly in the ointment -- Woman's millennium -- English notions about women -- Rag-tag and bob-tail fashions -- Some hints to editors -- Help for the helpful -- Women on the platform -- Poverty and independence -- The history of the late war -- Two kinds of women -- Sunday morning -- Justice for clergymen -- The old maid of the period -- The nurse of the period -- A look backward -- Varieties of human nature -- "A good mistress always makes a good servant" -- The mother-touch -- Some gossip about myself -- Hospitality -- Woman and her watch -- "My doctor" -- A woman at a lecture -- Can't be suited -- Autograph-hunters -- The etiquette of hotel piazzas -- Old Stockbridge in Massachusetts -- Sunday in the village -- Sick in the village -- Men and their clothes -- Notes from Plymouth Rock -- No beaux anywhere -- Daniel Webster's home -- A trip to Richmond -- The coming landlord -- Out on the end of Cape Ann -- Country diet -- From my seat on the rocks -- Wishings and longings -- A transition state -- What Mary thought of John -- Travel-spoiled Americans -- Life's illusions -- Jack Simpkins -- Biding the Lord's time -- One sort of fool -- The first baby.

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American essays -- 19th century

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