“I thought from the way you writ, that you were a great six-footer of a woman”: Gender and the public voice in Fanny Fern’s newspaper essays

In Her Own Voice: Nineteenth-Century American Women Essayists

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 81-96

  Laffrado, Laura ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315861197-5     Document Type: Chapter

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