In the canon
Ruth Hall
Fanny Fern
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1854
- Pages
- Pages 300
Her husband is dead of typhoid, the money is gone, and the relatives on both sides calculate aloud the smallest sum that will keep her alive. Fanny Fern wrote Ruth Hall out of her own ruin and did not disguise the people who caused it: the father totting up his coins, the brother who edits a fashionable magazine and hands back her manuscripts with the advice that she has no talent for writing.
she was vainly trying to look into a future, which God has mercifully veiled from curious eyes.
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