Ruth Hall

Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Thomas Cole and John Frederick Kensett. A widow with two children and no money is refused help by her husband's family and makes her living by writing for the newspapers. Fanny Fern had done exactly that; the book is a settling of accounts with her relatives, who were all recognized, and it sold seventy thousand copies. This editi...