![]() ![]() Born Sara Willis on July 9, 1811, in Portland, Maine died of breast cancer on October 10, 1872, in New York City daughter of Nathaniel Willis (a printer and publisher of religious and children's periodicals) and Hannah Parker Willis (a homemaker) attended Catharine Beecher's Hartford Female Seminary, Hartford, Connecticut, 1828–31 married Charles Eldredge, on (died 1846) married Samuel Farrington, on Janu(divorced 1853) married James Parton, on Januchildren: (first marriage) Mary Eldredge (died in 1845 at age 7) Grace Eldredge (d. Name variations: Sara Willis Eldredge Sara Willis Farrington Sara Willis Parton Sara Payson Willis in childhood, spelled first name "Sarah" name legally changed to Fanny Fern. ![]() Pseudonym of Sara Willis Parton who protested American women's social, political, and economic inequality in both her fiction and her popular weekly newspaper column in the New York Ledger. ![]()
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