At the urging of her father, Sara Eldredge (not yet FF
) remarried in 1849, this time for convenience, to Samuel Farrington
, a Boston widower and merchant. Unlike her first marriage this one soon...
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Fanny Fern
FF
began to support herself by writing soon after leaving Samuel Farrington
, her second husband. Her first paid publication (and also the first to feature her pseudonym Fanny Fern) was a short piece...