Margaret Fuller Summary

Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850) American essayist, critic, travel writer, translator, and poet. Margaret Fuller: Introduction Margaret Fuller: Principal Works Margaret Fuller: Primary Sources Margaret F... 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

An American clergyman, editor, and essayist, Brownson was a prolific writer whose work was centrally concerned with the quest for religious truth and belief in justice and political liberty. In the fo... Read more

James was an American novelist and short story writer valued for his psychological acuity and complex sense of artistic form. He also wrote literary criticism in which he developed his artistic ideals... Read more

The first impression a reader may get from a hasty perusal of Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century is one of effusiveness and formlessness. Containing a display of erudition that i... Read more

Steele is an American educator and critic who here applies to Fuller's poetry biographical interpretations that he considers crucial to an understanding of her emotional and intellectual develo... Read more

In the following introduction to her edition of a collection of Fuller's writings, Dickenson surveys Fuller's life, thought, and works. 'My dear Sir,' I exclaimed, '... Read more