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Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio. With original designs by Fred. M. Coffin.
- Title
- Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio. With original designs by Fred. M. Coffin.
- Author
- Fern, Fanny, 1811-1872
- Publication
- Auburn, Derby and Miller; Buffalo, Derby, Orton and Mulligan [etc.] 1853.
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- Description
- 400 p. plates.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Largely short stories, plus some satiric advice and commentary articles.
- Alternative Title
- Fern leaves from Fanny's portfolio
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Specimens
- Short stories
- Satirical literature
- Newspapers $x Sections, columns, etc.
- Newspapers – Sections, columns, etc.
- Fiction
- Specimens.
- Note
- Added title-page, engraved.
- Preface signed: Fanny Fern.
- Indexed In (note)
- Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875,
- Contents
- "The Still Small Voice" -- Look on this Picture, and then on that -- The Widow's Trials -- My Little Sunbeam -- Self-Conquest -- "Our Hatty" -- Two in Heaven -- "Summer Days;" or, The Young Wife's Affliction -- Comfort for the Widow -- Thorns for the Rose -- Thanksgiving Story -- Summer Friends; or, Will is Might -- "Nil Desperandum" -- Cecile Grey -- Childhood's Trust -- Elise De Vaux -- The Wail of a Broken Heart -- Mary Lee -- A Talk about Babies -- Elsie's First Trial -- A Night-Watch with a Dead Infant -- A Practical Blue-Stocking -- The Little Pauper Edith May; or, The Mistake of a Life-Time -- Mabel's Soliloquy -- How Husbands may Rule -- Little Charley -- The Lost and the Living -- On a Little Child who had crept before a Looking-Glass that was left upon the Sidewalk -- Kitty's Resolve -- Woman -- The Passionate Father -- The Partial Mother -- The Ball-Room and the Nursery -- All's Well -- How Woman Loves -- A Mother's Soliloquy -- The Invalid Wife -- The Stray Lamb --^
- Lena May; or, Darkness and Light -- Thoughts Born of a Caress -- A Chapter on Literary Women -- He who has most of Heart -- Dark Days -- Night -- Children's Rights -- Sorrow's Teachings -- "An Infidel Mother" -- Little Charlie, the Child-Angel -- The Cross and the Crown -- Lilla, the Orphan -- Observing the Sabbath -- The Prophet's Chamber -- Lillies of the Valley -- Grandfather Glen -- The Widow's Prayer -- The Step-Mother -- A Word to Mothers -- The Test of Love -- Child-Life -- "The Old House" -- "Seeing the Folly of it" -- The Transplanted Lily -- No Fiction -- Incident at Mount Auburn -- A Sunday Morning Soliloquy -- Little Allie -- The Flirt; or, The Unfaithful Lover -- Fern Glen -- Minnie -- Sweet-Briar Farm -- "The Angel-Child" -- Not a "Model Minister" -- "Merry Christmas!--Happy Christmas!" -- Leta -- The Model Step-Mother -- A Page from a Woman's Heart; or, Female Heroism -- Little May -- Part II. Nicodemus Ney -- Advice to Ladies -- The Model Widow -- The Model Widower --^
- The Tear of a Wife -- Editors -- Bachelor Housekeeping -- Borrowed Light -- Mistaken Philanthropy -- The Model Minister -- The Weaker Vessel -- A Tempest in a Thimble -- The Quiet Mr. Smith -- Prudence Prim -- Men's Dickeys never fit exactly -- A Little Bunker Hill Soliloquy of Rev. Mr. Parish -- Tim Treadwell -- A Model Lady -- Important for Married Men -- Mr. Clapp's Soliloquy -- What Mrs. Smith said -- Everybody's Vacation except Editors -- Old Jeremiah; or, Sunny Days -- "I can't" -- A Chapter on Clergymen -- Uncle Jabe -- An Interesting Husband -- Indulgent Husbands -- A Fern Soliloquy -- Aunt Hetty on Matrimony -- Was n't you caught Napping? -- A Lady on Money Matters -- Mrs. Croaker -- To the Empress -- Eugenia Empress Eugenia's Maids of Honor -- Fast Day -- The Bore of the Sanctum -- Owls kill Humming-Birds -- "The Best of Men have their Failings"
- OCLC
- 3570015
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library