Synopsis
Fanny and Walt
$7.99
Published by Cyberpress
3 Male 2 Female
Fanny Fern, novelist and highest paid columnist, man or woman in the 1850s, has a love affair with Walt Whitman, self-published poet of "Leaves of Grass," and at the time largely unknown
Fern loans Whitman money to publish the second edition of "Leaves of Grass," and praises him in her weekly column
The time is pre-Civil War in NYC and the play is about what an unconventional woman could accomplish despite obstacles and what a genius poet might mean in her life
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