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The Triumph of Nationalism/The House Dividing
Topic: Culture of the Common ManTopic: Cult of DomesticityTopic: ReligionTopic: ExpansionTopic: America in 1850
Topic: Cult of Domesticity
Overview of Triumph of Nationalism
Resource Menu: Cult of Domesticity
Text 1. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Text 2. Caroline Gilman
Text 3. Catharine E. Beecher
Text 4. Harriet Jacobs
Text 5. Fanny Fern
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Text 6. Godey's Lady's Book
Text 7. Rev. Theodore Parker
Text 8. Elizabeth Cady Stanton


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5.  Fanny Fern (Sara Payton Willis Parton), Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio, 1853

See Reading Guide for recommended selections.

Fanny Fern
Link
https://www.merrycoz.org/voices/leaves/LEAVES00.HTM

Note: On this page, scroll to the Table of Contents (halfway down the page).


Online
Source


Voices from 19th-Century America
Site creator: Pat Pfleiger, Dept. of English, West Chester University


Printing

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-   Copy/paste each selection to a word-processing
    document. Print the document.
-   Length: 1/2 - 2 pages each (single-space at 12-point
    type with 1" margins).

Supplemental
sites


Introductory information (scroll to middle of page)

Another partial collection of Fern Leaves, with biographical information, from Stephen Railton and the University of Virginia






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