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A varied collection of short essays, sketches, and soliloquies mixes humor and sentiment to portray domestic and civic life. Vignettes range from rural scenes and bereavement to city routines and boarding-house experience, emphasizing financial dependence, household labor, and the social pressures on women. The pieces alternate pointed satire of fashion, clergy, and public manners with practical reflections on housekeeping, parenting, and charity, using anecdote and direct address to balance wit, moral observation, and sympathetic portraiture.

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Title: Shadows and sunbeams: Being a second series of Fern leaves from Fanny's portfolio

Author: Fanny Fern

Illustrator: George Housman Thomas

Release date: January 13, 2023 [eBook #69784]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: W. S. Orr, 1854

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AUNT HEPSY’S COURTSHIP.

SHADOWS AND SUNBEAMS:
Being a Second Series
OF
FERN LEAVES FROM FANNY’S PORTFOLIO.

ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE THOMAS.
LONDON:
Wm. S. ORR AND CO., AMEN CORNER,
PATERNOSTER ROW;
SAMPSON LOW, SON, AND CO.,
LUDGATE HILL.
MDCCCLIV.
Published first in England by International Arrangement with the American Proprietors, and Entered at Stationers’ Hall.