Shadows and Sunbeams

A second gathering of the newspaper columns that made Fanny Fern the highest-paid writer in America - short, sharp pieces on husbands, money, widows and the way the world treats women without either. She was paid a hundred dollars a column at a time when a novel might earn less. This edition binds forty-two plates by painters including Winslow Homer, Edvard Munch and John George Brown, alongside nine illustrations restored and coloured.