Ginger-Snaps

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781775560081
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Essays
• Index: Literature

An influential critic, commentator, and journalist, New England-based writer Fanny Fern (born Sara Willis) ascended to the very highest levels of literary acclaim in the late nineteenth century, even at one time commanding the title of the best-paid woman writer in the United States. The collection Ginger-Snaps brings together many of Fern's most beloved columns and essays.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• Preface
• 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 Our 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