Three years earlier the college had awarded her an A.M. In 1885 Fanny accepted a position at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, teaching literature and French and also working in the library. It was followed three years later by a third and final novel, Prince Hal, or, The Romance of a Rich Young Man. In 1879 her second novel, A Mere Adventurer, was published. In these years she also joined the Georgia Teachers Association and served as vice president and chair of various committees. It was a theme close to Fanny's heart, having vowed as a young woman to never marry and forfeit her freedom.įrom 1874 to 1881 Fanny taught and later served as principal at the Select School. In it she told the story of a woman struggling to maintain independence while achieving artist fulfillment, establishing a theme that would appear again in two later novels. Two years later, in 1876, A Family Secret was published. Returning to Washington in 1874, Fanny opened the Select School for Girls with a cousin. The journal she kept during these years wouldn't be discovered and published until decades later.
First teaching at Washington Seminary in her hometown, in 1872 she moved to Yazoo, Mississippi, where she taught and later served as superintendent. As family finances became strained, Fanny embarked on a career in education. In other writings she adopted the pseudonym "Elzey Hay".īy 1870 the South's economy was in decline from the Civil War. In it she assumed the guise of a male writer because women writers were uncommon at the time and often not taken seriously. Her first article for national publication was a political piece appearing in an 1865 edition of the New York World. Over the course of her lifetime she produced novels, poems and botany texts, as well as serials, articles, essays and editorials for more than 70 magazines and newspapers.
Widely read for its lively style, historians consider it an important book for the insights it offers into the experience and sentiments of many Southern women during the Civil War and early Reconstruction. In 1864 she started the diary that would eventually be published as The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl (1864-1865). In the Andrews Home, Fanny had access to newspapers, book and magazines, and was encouraged to participate in discussions of national and local political issues.Ĭompleting high school at LaGrange Female College in 1857, Fanny remained at home and wrote intermittently for various newspapers. Eliza Frances Andrews - Fanny, as she was known to friends - was a writer, educator and botanist.īorn in 1840 in Washington, Georgia, Fanny was the daughter of Judge Garnett and Annulet Ball Andrews.
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