A Fanny Fern Reader: Selections by a Pioneering Nineteenth-Century Woman Journalist - Hardcoverby Fanny Fern (Author), Emily E. Vandette (Editor), Emily E. Vandette (Introduction by) In the middle of the nineteenth century, the highest paid and most famous newspaper writer in the US was a woman known to the world as Fanny Fern, the nom de plume of Sara Payson Willis. A Fanny Fern Reader features a selection of Fern's columns, mostly from her years as a weekly columnist for the New York Ledger, along with an introduction that shares the