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1 comments about Ruth Hall (Girlebooks Classics).

1. The first novel by Fanny Fern, otherwise known as Sara Payson Willis, is a semi-autobiographical tale of a talented writer who loses her husband and is forced to support herself and two young children in the mid-1800s. Fern writes with biting social commentary on the subject of traditional assumptions of a woman's place in society.
   
   The chapters are short and character details are sparse. With a journalist's style, Fern builds her story through snippets of information and dialog. In these snippets, she fearlessly depicts real-life events and people, draping them in a fictional guise. Most of Fern's family is here--her father and brother and in-laws--in all their vicious detail. We follow the "story" of Ruth Hall from her happy married life to groveling for work while her relations turn a blind eye to her poverty and suffering. Upon her first successes as a paid writer, she takes the same approach in exposing the underhanded tactics of publishers, especially when dealing with women.
   
   Fern states in her preface that Ruth Hall is not a novel, preferring the term "continuous story". She wrote at variance with the traditional themes and styles of the time and therefore received her share of criticism for it. However she also had supporters. Notably, Nathaniel Hawthorne hoped that Fern's writing would encourage her female contemporaries to follow her example and "throw off the constraints of decency...then their books are sure to possess character and value."

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1 comments about Seven Leagues to Paradise.

1. Tregaskis was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
   
   After I graduated from college in May, 1971, Oberlin College,
   A.B., then spent some time at Vanderbilt. In 1972 I hung out
   as a hippie on Mt. Adams in Cincinnati, then my father
   got me another job working for my uncle at MacPerth Knitwear
   downtown Cincinnati... then another job in Elizabeth
   working for Wilson Freight Company loading and unloading
   trucks. I was in Elizabeth the Fall of 1972. I drove
   a tow motor, what they called fork lifts.. Cardboard
   drums of yellow cake came through there and telephone exchange
   mainframes.. One of the truck berths was to Montauk.
   
   I came home to Cincinnati in December of 72 then worked
   as a dishwasher for 10 days before Christmas at Frisch's.
   
   Then started back at University of Cincinnati in math
   and biology. I had a breakdown and went to Enoch Sheppard
   Pratt Hospital in Baltimore for 8 months, while in the hospital
   earning a real estate license. I left the hospital to
   sell real estate, working for Professional Real Estate
   and Coldwell Banker Grempler... while working for Grempler
   I was also working in a bacteriophage genetics lab at
   Johns Hopkins.. I left Baltimore in the spring of '75 to
   take the Big Trip, seeing the country. I ended up in
   San Francisco and was hospitalized twice. The second
   time, I was there at Napa for 3 months... A young man
   on the ward's locker was filled with books. I bought two
   of them for 10 dollars. One was an entire book on
   Ohm's law, or electronics.. The other, Seven Leagues.
   
   My father picked me up and we flew back to Cincinnati.
   After a month home I took the Navy officer's test, a math
   test, getting 58/60 where 60 was passing.
   
   Next year I took a year of electronics at Ohio College
   of Applied Science - Ohio Mechanic's Institute.
   
   Seven Leagues is the frustration Tregaskis feels, discontents
   where ever he lived even finally home.

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