| 1838 | Sketches of Married Life. Unlike other sentimental domestic fiction of the period that advocated submissiveness for wives, Follen's novel presents an independent heroine who supports her family and defies society by going to the hospital to nurse her fiancé. Follen was a Boston writer married to Charles Follen, the first German professor at Harvard. She was active in the antislavery cause, producing the well-known tract A Letter to Mothers in the Free States (1855). |
