In 1855, Fanny Fern was one of the highest-paid authors in America due to the pay she received writing for this industry. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this industry that employed people such as Ida B. Wells and Nellie Bly.
ANSWER: newspapers [or journalism; or periodicals; accept newspaper columnists; prompt on publishing or publications or journals or word forms; reject “magazines”]
[10h] Like every other female author, Fanny Fern was barely mentioned in this 1941 book, which established the standard canon of mid-19th century American literature. This book focused extensively on the work of Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, and Whitman.
ANSWER: American Renaissance [or American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman] (by F. O. Matthiessen)
[10m] American Renaissance also ignored this 1845 book by Margaret Fuller, which argues that marriage should be an alliance between equal partners. It was expanded from Fuller’s article “The Great Lawsuit” in The Dial.
ANSWER: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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