Ann Fisher

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Standard Name: Fisher, Ann
Indexed Name: Anne Fisher
Indexed Name: A. Fisher
Married Name: Ann Slack
Indexed Name: Ann Fisher Slack
AF was remarkable first for getting herself an education above the expectations of her class, and then for publishing (from her position within the later eighteenth-century provincial book trade) an English grammar and dictionary (both firsts for a woman), as well as a pedagogical anthology and works directed at children on English composition and spelling. Her works met with great success and wide circulation.
Fleuron or printer's ornament from Ann Fisher's pedagogical anthology of poems and extracts, "The Pleasing Instructor. or Entertaining Moralist", 1756.

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Literary responses Jane Marcet
Scholar Christopher Mulvey considers that this is the only eighteenth- or early-nineteenth-century grammar held by Chawton House Library that might well (unlike works by Ann Fisher or Susanna Haswell Rowson ) be enjoyed by a...
Textual Production Tabitha Tenney
The full title is The New Pleasing Instructor: or, Young Lady's Guide to Virtue and Happiness. Consisting of essays, relations, descriptions, epistles, dialogues, and poetry. Carefully extracted from the best Modern Authors. Designed principally for...

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Texts

Fisher, Ann. A New Grammar. 2nd edition, I. Thompson, 1750.
Fisher, Ann. An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Complete English Expositor. G. Robinson and J. Roberts, T. Slack, 1772.
Fisher, Ann. The New English Tutor; or, Modern Preceptor. J. Richardson and T. Slack, 1762.
Fisher, Ann, editor. The Pleasing Instructor; or, Entertaining Moralist. T. Slack, 1756.