Hi, I'm Audrey Gellman, the co-founder and CEO of the Wing.

You can probably tell that I am absolutely obsessed with the second season of the marvelous Mrs. Mezal.

And I love that Midg is taking her show on the road and outside New York City, just like we're

doing with our future wing locations.

Great minds think alike. Thanks to Amazon Prime video for their support. Great Minds Think A Like.

Thanks to Amazon Prime video for their support and welcome to the final episode of the first season of No Man's Land. Oh boy. Where to begin? Fanny Fern was a revolutionary.

Deborah Branigan, author of Shame the Devil, is talking about a columnist and author who is wildly popular,

from the 1850s to the 1870s and personally

significant to me because Fanny Fern was my gateway club woman and the story

you're about to hear was the very one that hooked me.

In her era, which was the era of Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, she was the highest

paid most popular writer.

In 1855, Fanny Fern was making the modern equivalent of $3,000 a week,

writing about women's rights, children's rights, and prison reform.

A compilation of her New York ledger column

sold 70,000 copies in its first year.

Even Nathaniel Hawthorne, who famously condemned the quote,

damn mob of scribbling women, praised Fern as the exception.

He wrote,

The woman writes as if the devil was in her.

And that is the only condition in which a woman ever writes anything worth reading.

I like to consider her like the Oprah of the 19th century. They wanted to know what did Fannie Fern think about this issue or that issue or did you hear what Fannie Fern said about this or that?

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