HJ
uses fictitious names for others in her story besides herself. Her owner James Norcom
appears as Dr Flint, her loverSamuel Tredwell Sawyer
as Mr Sands, and her employer Nathaniel Parker Willis
as Mr...
Henry Fothergill Chorley
(who wrote reviews of both the first and second editions of Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio, identifying FF
as the sister of N. P. Willis in the first and apparently forgetting...
Friends, Associates
Harriet Jacobs
HJ
's friendships with white people have left traces behind them; her friendships with black people have not. When she arrived in Rochester in 1849, HJ
stayed briefly with Amy Post
, a white Quaker...
Family and Intimate relationships
Fanny Fern
FF
's elder brother Nathaniel Parker Willis
won distinction as a journalist, poet, and editor.