Ginger-Snaps

Length: 8h 9m
Chapters: 61
Language: English
Genre: Essays & Short Works

American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist from the 1850s to the 1870s, Fanny Fern (real name of Sara Payson Willis) was the first woman to have her own regular column, became the highest-paid columnist in the US by 1855, and would support herself for more than 20 years by her writing. Ginger-Snaps, published in 1870, covers a broad range of topics in plain language and with biting humor. She describes these columns in her Preface as follows: “When I was a little girl, I used to play "make ginger-snaps;" and I always tossed in all the ginger in the spice-box, be it more or less; so if you find these rather biting, attribute it to the force of early habits. Besi…