"SHAME THE DEVIL" Book Trailer by Debra Brenegan
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Uploaded by PumpUpPR on Aug 5, 2011
Shame the Devil tells the remarkable and true story of Fanny Fern (the pen name of Sara Payson Willis), one of the most successful, influential, and popular writers of the nineteenth century.
A novelist, journalist, and feminist, Fern (1811-1872) outsold Harriet Beecher Stowe, won the respect of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and served as literary mentor to Walt Whitman. Scrabbling in the depths of poverty before her meteoric rise to fame and fortune, she was widowed, escaped an abusive second marriage, penned one of the country's first prenuptial agreements, married a man eleven years her junior, and served as a nineteenth-century Oprah to her hundreds of thousands of fans.
Her weekly editorials in the pages of the New York Ledger over a period of about twenty years chronicled the myriad controversies of her era and demonstrated her firm belief in the motto, "Speak the truth, and shame the devil." Through the story of Fern and her contemporaries, including Walt Whitman, Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shame the Devil brings the intellectual and social ferment of mid-nineteenth-century America to life.
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Amazing what women had to endure in the 19th century when Fanny Fern lived. Thank goodness for liberation. Thank goodness for authors like Brenegan who have taken the time to research and shape their research into a poetic and moving story.
wiesesneyd1 6 months ago
Brenegan has done a great job of bringing Fanny Fern to life. Her careful research and delightful writing style has made the fiction portion totally believeable. My hat is off to both Fern and Brenegan for working so hard for women's rights.
221bride 7 months ago
This is a great book, I'm halfway through and really enjoying it. Brenegan has done a wonderful job of telling Fanny's story within the context of the times. It is enlightening me as to the conditions and restrictions women endured in these times. Well done!
jimpalz 7 months ago