Photo of Sarah Payson Willis Parton ("Fanny Fern") [manuscript], n.d.
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Fern, Fanny, 1811-1872
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Author; Journalist; Columnist; Children's author; Humorist. Sara Payson Willis (Fanny Fern) born Portland, Maine, 1811; educated in Boston and at Catharine Beecher's seminary in Hartford, Connecticut. Married Charles Eldredge, 1837 (died 1846); had three daughters; married Samuel P. Farrington (divorced three years later); married James Parton, 1856. In 1851 she began writing for several small Boston magazines under the name Fanny Fern, and her pieces were soon picked up...
