Frances Miriam Whitcher wrote some of the best Down East or Yankee humor of the nineteenth century. Historians note that she and B. P. Shillaber created the first fully developed humorous women charac...
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Her work "called forth a general burst of praise from one end of the Union to the other," said Louis A. Godey of Frances Miriam Whitcher, a pioneer in the creation of a female humorist tradition in Am...
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