Anne E. Fernald

Anne E. Fernald is Professor of English and Women’s Studies and President of the Faculty Senate at Fordham University. She edited Mrs. Dalloway for Cambridge University Press and is the author of a book on Woolf as well as articles about women, feminism, and modernism.


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In the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism

When Goodnight Moon was published in 1946, no one predicted it would become a classic. Its sales began to take off in 1953, and now the book has sold over 14 million copies. I grew up with Goodnight Moon and I raised my daughters on it. The text remains bearable, charming, and even compelling after […]