[Gutenberg 40814] • Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
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- Authors
- Fern, Fanny
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Tags
- domestic fiction , married women -- fiction , classics
- ISBN
- 9780140436402
- Date
- 1854-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.32 MB
- Lang
- en
In *Ruth Hall* , one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her family, and her struggle to make a living as a writer. Written as a series of short vignettes and snatches of overheard conversations, it is as unconventional in style as in substance and strikingly modern in its impact.