![]() And besides, teaching was better than marrying and being relegated to home, hearth and afternoon tea with New Orleans society ladies. ![]() The school, located in the impoverished Irish district of New Orleans, offered business classes to the local women and appealed to Fanny’s sense of justice. When her father died, Fanny lost her livelihood, failed as a lady’s companion and run out of resources. Fanny had managed her Father’s law office for a decade but she’d never seen a typewriter before, something she’d failed to mention to her employer, Sylvia Giddings, Principal and Founder of Wisdom Hall Settlement House, at the interview. Fanny is battling with a Hammond typewriting machine and “all hell would break loose” if she hadn’t mastered it by the time her typing students arrived the following Wednesday. The story opens on a Friday in April, 1889. ![]() ![]() Fanny Newcomb, the plucky heroine of Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper, is a woman ahead of her age and from the first sentence, I knew Fanny was my kind of girl. ![]()
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