Fern, Fanny, 1811-1872
Person
Biography
Sara Payson Willis Parton, author and newspaper columnist better known as Fanny Fern. Educated in Boston and at Catharine Beecher's seminary in Hartford, Conn.
Citation:
Fanny Fern and Ethel Parton Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MAFound in 1 Collection or Record:
Willis Family papers
00-2010-140-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-140-0
Scope and Contents
A poem by Sara Payson Willis, dated Boston, March 11, 1829 that is addressed to Miss Urania Phillip Battelle in Norfolk, Conn. Also part of an undated letter from Nathaniel Parker Willis, Sara's brother, to Urania. Urania Battell and Sara Payson Willis were students at the Hartford Female Seminary in 1829.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1829 Mar 11
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society