author
Wanda Fraiken Neff
1888–1961
A novelist, teacher, and pioneering scholar of women’s work, she brought both literary imagination and social insight to stories of women seeking independence and purpose. Her books blend keen observation of education, careers, love, and the changing roles available to women.
1 Audiobook
We sing Diana
by Wanda Fraiken Neff
About the author
Wanda Fraiken Neff began writing for a children’s paper connected with the Minneapolis Journal at age nine. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1909, earned a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1917, and taught English at schools and colleges including the Universities of Colorado and Minnesota, Vassar College, Barnard College, and Columbia University.
In 1921–1922, an American Association of University Women fellowship took her to England to study the history of Victorian working women. That research became Victorian Working Women: An Historical and Literary Study of Women in British Industries and Professions, 1832–1850 (1929). She also wrote the novels We Sing Diana (1928) and Lone Voyagers (1929), and was married to Columbia professor Emery Neff.