At Home And Abroad Summary
Margaret Fuller

PART I Summer on the lakes.   Summer days of busy leisure,   Long summer days of dear-bought pleasure,   You have done your teaching well;   Had the scholar mea... Read more

Biography EssaySarah Margaret Fuller's permanence lies in that most intangible quality, herself. Realizing that her position in life would have been different and much higher had she been a man, Fulle... Read more

Best remembered as the author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), Margaret Fuller has been celebrated as one of the foremost social critics of her day. Her importance as a feminist theorist has... Read more

"The destiny of each human being is no doubt great and peculiar," wrote Margaret Fuller to James Nathan in May 1845, "but there are also in every age a few in whose lot the meaning of that age is conc... Read more

Called by herself "the American Corinne," in analogy with Madame de Staël's feminist heroine and later referred to as the "Margaret-ghost" by Henry James because of the haunting fascination she... Read more