James Parton

Standard Name: Parton, James

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Fanny Fern
FF made her third marriage, this time to journalist and biographer James Parton , who was eleven years her junior.
Warren, Joyce. Fanny Fern: An Independent Woman. Rutgers University Press, 1992.
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Family and Intimate relationships Fanny Fern
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...
Textual Production 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...

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Texts

Parton, James, and Fanny Fern. “Memoir of Fanny Fern”. Fanny Fern. A Memorial Volume, G. W. Carleton, 1874.