In the late summer of 1846, Margaret Fuller traveled to Europe as the foreign correspondent for the New-York Tribune. This was a trip that she had been planning to take on her own for years, but circumstances concerning her family (especially the sudden death of her father in 1835) had prevented her from doing so earlier. […]
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Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century
December 1, 2011
Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century was first published in The Dial in 1843 as an essay titled “The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men, Woman versus Women.” Some of Fullers friends–particularly Horace Greeley–were so impressed with it that they suggested she expand and rewrite it into a full-length book. She did just that, and […]
Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes
November 30, 2011
In the summer of 1843, Margaret Fuller went on a tour of the Great Lakes; in the mid-nineteenth century this area was considered the far western frontier. Fuller’s travel route was pretty circular, starting and ending in Buffalo, NY. Summer on the Lakes was Fuller’s first full-length book and it detailed her journey: the physical journey […]
Thoughts on Margaret Fuller
November 29, 2011
(The following biographical information comes from the Introduction to The Essential Margaret Fuller, written by Jeffrey Steele.) Margaret Fuller was born in 1810 in Massachusetts, and was the first child of Timothy (later a congressman) and Margarett. Fuller had eight siblings, two of whom died when they were just over a year old. Fuller’s father was […]
Book Review: The Essential Margaret Fuller
November 28, 2011
The Essential Margaret Fuller by Margaret Fuller Edited and with an Introduction by Jeffrey Steele Nonfiction / Fiction / Poetry Rutgers University Press, 1992 Paperback 536 pages A couple of weeks ago (November 15th, to be exact) I kicked off Transcendentalist month by starting The Essential Margaret Fuller. I was looking forward to reading Woman […]
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