She was a suffrage supporter, and in 1868 she co-founded Sorosis, New York City's pioneer club for women writers and artists, formed after women were excluded from hearing the author Charles Dickens at the all-male New York Press Club dinner in his honor.
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In 2005, Susan Stoderl's opera about Fern, titled A.F.R.A.I.D. (American Females for Righteousness Abasement Ignorance & Docillity), premiered as the inaugural show of the Brooklyn Repertory Opera, at the New York International Fringe Festival.
fern | Fanny Brice | Fanny Kemble | Fanny Crosby | FERN | Fanny Howe | Fanny Hill | Fanny Elssler | Fern | Fanny Cerrito | Sword Fern | hart's-tongue fern | Fern Ridge Reservoir | Fern Creek High School | Fern Andra | Fanny Price | Fanny Lewald | Fanny Fitzwilliam | Fanny Blankers-Koen | Fanny and Alexander | Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble | the fern ''Blechnum | Madame Fanny La Fan | Fern Ridge Wildlife Area | Fern Ridge High School | Fern Holland | Fanny Rabel | Fanny Parnell | Fanny Hill (2007 serial) | Fanny Elßler |
With Ellen (and previously Fanny Fern), he raised Ethel, the daughter of Grace Eldrege (Fanny Fern's daughter) and writer Mortimer Thomson (also known as Philander Doesticks).