Research Catalog

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 ; Cincinnati : Henry W. Derby, 1853.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Coffin, Frederick M.
• Derby, Henry W.
• Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books NjP
• Derby and Miller, publisher.
• Derby, Orton & Mulligan, publisher.

Description

400 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

Largely short stories, plus some satiric advice and commentary articles.

Alternative Title

Fern leaves from Fanny's portfolio

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Printing > New York (State) > Auburn > Specimens
• Manners and customs
• Printing
• United States > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction
• New York (State) > Auburn
• United States

Genre/Form

• Newspapers
• Periodical
• newspapers.
• short stories.
• Fiction
• Satirical literature
• Short stories
• Specimens
• Newspapers.
• Short stories.
• Satirical literature.
• Novels.
• Journaux.
• Nouvelles.

Note

• Added t.p., engraved.
• Preface signed: Fanny Fern.
• Illustrations by Frederick M. Coffin, engraved on wood by N. Orr and E. Bookhout.

Indexed In (note)

• Hamilton, S. American book illustrators (1968 ed.)

Provenance (note)

• Inscribed : "Miss Eunice Chesebrough. From her friend Joseph A. Barton. Sept. 19 1853."--in ink, on first fly-leaf.
• Bookplate of Howard Grant Peacock.
• Several clippings related to Frederick M. Coffin and Fanny Fern are pasted in. Laid in is a signature of Fanny Fern, dated March 1st, 1856, written under the lines : :This earth is very lovely. Oh my God, I thank thee that I live." Now located in GC181.

Binding (note)

• Blind and gold stamped, publishers' cloth binding.

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."

LCCN

24019177

OCLC

• ocm03570015
• 3570015
• SCSB-293009

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library