Fanny Fern 
Rose Clark 

Essayist and newspaper columnist Fanny Fern achieved a remarkable level of fame in her lifetime, and in addition to hundreds of newspaper columns, she penned two novels that were based in large part on her own life experiences. Rose Clark, the follow-up to the spectacularly popular Ruth Hall, focuses on a doomed marriage that is similar in many regards to the ill-advised union Fern entered into after the death of her first husband.