Shame the devil
Subtitle: a novel
By: Debra Brenegan
Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781438435879
Subjects: Women journalists; Women novelists; Fiction
Description: Shame the Devil tells the remarkable and true story of Fanny Fern (the pen name of Sara Payson Willis), one of the most successful, influential, and popular writers of the nineteenth century. A novelist, journalist, and feminist, Fern (1811-1872) outsold Harriet Beecher Stowe, won the respect of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and served as literary mentor to Walt Whitman.