Legacy
- Fanny Fern is credited with coining the phrase, "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach".
- Henry D. Butler dedicated his 1858 book The Family Aquarium to "the gifted litterateuse whose nom de plume is 'Fanny Fern'"
- Fern's granddaughter Ethel Grace Thompson Parton became a correspondent for the periodical The Youth's Companion (founded by her great-uncle, Nathaniel Willis).
- 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.
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