

Fanny Fern Tales | Getting Up the Wrong Way, Part 2
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,...

Susan Stoderl
Aug 24, 20221 min read


Going Backwards
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...

Susan Stoderl
Jul 20, 20221 min read


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

Susan Stoderl
Jul 6, 20222 min read