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Welcome to the website of Debra Brenegan author of Shame the Devil (SUNY Press) a historical account of nineteenth-century American writer Fanny Fern. Learn more about the book and read an excerpt from Shame the Devil.* There may be married people who do not read the morning paper. Smith and I know them not ... It is not too much to say the newspapers are one of our strongest points of sympathy; that it is our meat and drink to praise and abuse them together; that we often in our imagination edit a model newspaper, which shall have for its motto, `Speak the truth, and shame the devil.ˊ"Debra Brenegan has created a lively portrait of an amazing woman. The heart-wrenching ups and downs of Fanny Fern's life make for riveting reading, and the lush depictions of mid-1800s Boston and New York, peppered with glimpses of Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Jacobs, make for a vivid, rollicking tale of one of the most pivotal moments in American literary history." -Tina May Hall Author of The Physics of Imaginary Objects Listen to Debra on New Letters on the Air View Interviews and Media Mentions here |
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