Fanny: A Fiction

by EdmundWhite (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.42

  A spirited novel about the lives, loves and battles of two extraordinary 19th-century women, Fanny White and Fanny Trollope. Written in the voice of the aging Fanny Trollope, it is a spoof biography of her friend, the Scottish radical and feminist Fanny Wright. But which is the true heroine?

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.42

  In her fifties Fanny Trollope, mother of the novelist Anthony, became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Now, twenty-five years later, she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet: the biography of her old friend Frances Wright, the Scottish radical and feminist. Back in the 1820s the young Fanny Wright erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano, her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long, Wright had convinced the older woman to follow her to America - a journey of extreme penury, frontier hardships and the most satisfying (and surprising) sensual romance of Fanny Trollope's life. The 'biography soon degenerates into a settling of scores with Fanny Wright and wild digressions on the misadventures of Mrs Trollope's own family.