Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern
"Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time" by Fanny Fern is a novel published in 1854. This autobiographical story follows Ruth from blissful marriage through devastating loss to desperate poverty. Widowed with two young daughters and abandoned by wealthy relatives, Ruth struggles to survive in a boarding house near a slum. When all conventional paths fail, she turns to writing under a pen name. Her journey captures one woman's fight
for independence in nineteenth-century America, where financial survival and family loyalty collide. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Fern, Fanny, 1811-1872 |
|---|---|
| Title | Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Hall_(novel) |
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| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Subject | Married women -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 40814 |
| Release Date | Sep 22, 2012 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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