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People have been writing fanfic forever. Check out the letter written to Kate Douglas Wiggin, the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903) who resisted marrying off her heroine.
In a1905 interview that appeared in the Ladies’ Home Journal, Kate Douglas Wiggin pulled out a letter written to her by a ten-year-old girl that includes a “sequel” to Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. In less than a page of script, the child writes that Rebecca is visited by Adam Ladd, engaged, and married the next day. She revises the ending of the first novel by having the title character tell her new husband, “I was thinking that I’d have a chance to change a sentence I once said. Instead of ‘God bless Aunt Miranda God bless the brick house’, It is ‘God bless Aunt Miranda God bless the brick house and God bless my dear husband’”.
It reminds me of the deluge of correspondence directed to Louisa May Alcott asserting that Jo should have married Laurie.
In a1905 interview that appeared in the Ladies’ Home Journal, Kate Douglas Wiggin pulled out a letter written to her by a ten-year-old girl that includes a “sequel” to Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. In less than a page of script, the child writes that Rebecca is visited by Adam Ladd, engaged, and married the next day. She revises the ending of the first novel by having the title character tell her new husband, “I was thinking that I’d have a chance to change a sentence I once said. Instead of ‘God bless Aunt Miranda God bless the brick house’, It is ‘God bless Aunt Miranda God bless the brick house and God bless my dear husband’”.
It reminds me of the deluge of correspondence directed to Louisa May Alcott asserting that Jo should have married Laurie.
