TY - BOOK AU - Fern,Fanny TI - Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time AV - PS PY - 2012/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Domestic fiction KW - Married women -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Hall_(novel); Release date is 2012-09-22; Produced by sp1nd, eagkw and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time" by Fanny Fern is a novel published in 1854. This autobiographical story follows Ruth from blissful marriage through devastating loss to desperate poverty. Widowed with two young daughters and abandoned by wealthy relatives, Ruth struggles to survive in a boarding house near a slum. When all conventional paths fail, she turns to writing under a pen name. Her journey captures one woman's fight for independence in nineteenth-century America, where financial survival and family loyalty collide. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40814 ER -