Transcriber's Note:

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been preserved.

On page [136], "othewise" should possibly be "otherwise".

On page [165], unclosed parenthesis should possibly be closed after "clamorous for supper".

THE
LIFE AND BEAUTIES
OF
FANNY FERN.

"Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,

Nor set down aught in malice."

Philadelphia:
T. B. PETERSON, NO. 306 CHESTNUT STREET,
GIRARD BUILDINGS, ABOVE THIRD.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-five, by H. LONG & BROTHER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York

PREFACE.