Part two in my Fanny Fern Tales series is based on her humorist columns published in the New York Ledger in the 1850s-70s. The articles,...

This will be the first in a series of readings of Fanny Fern's columns which were published in The New York Ledger. Excerpt two will be...

The aria speaks of life among the destitute in 19th-century New York City. That time is returning all over this country because women are...

"The Cult of Domesticity" or "True Womanhood," was established for the wives and daughters of the white American middle- and upper-class...