Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), an American feminist, cultural critic, and transcendentalist, fought for equality of the sexes. Not long after her birth on May 23, 1810, in Cambridgeport, Mass., Margaret Fuller's father started to educate her as a...

Sarah Margaret Fuller, Marchesa D'Ossoli, was arguably the most famous American woman writer of her generation and--with the possible exception of Harriet Beecher Stowe--of the entire nineteenth century. Her career as a public intellectual is...

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 doubtless contributed to her not being widely...

Atherton, J. Christianity and the Market. London: SPCK, 1992. Hilton, B. The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought 1785–1865. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1988. Stackhouse, M. Public Theology and...

A pioneer of nineteenth-century feminism, Margaret Fuller was a well-respected social and literary critic. She is best known as the founding editor of the Transcendentalist journal The Dial, and as the author of the feminist treatise Woman in the...

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 - July 19, 1850) was a journalist, critic and women's rights activist. She was the most important gender theorist of her...

Michael Timko is professor emeritus at the City University of New York. He has written frequently for The World & I; his article "Queen Victoria and Mrs. Brown" appeared in the May 2002 issue. It is not disrespectful, in spite of recent...

Byline: John M. and Priscilla S. Taylor, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Margaret Fuller, the only female member of the brilliant Emerson, Thoreau, et al. circle, is not an easy subject to write about, and Margaret Fuller, An American Romantic Life, Vol....

Today is Saturday, July 7, the 188th day of 2007. There are 177 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 7, 1865, four people were hanged in Washington for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Lincoln.On this date:In 1807, Napoleon I...

“A mixture of Yankee transcendentalism and New York rowdyism and, what must be surprising to both these elements, they here seem to fuse and combine with the most perfect harmony.” This is how scholar Charles Eliot Norton assessed Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in 1855,...

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 development. He divides Fuller's poetry into three chronological periods: an early period (1835-38) consisting primarily of occasional pieces and poems to a close friend; a middle period (1839-1843) that charts a spiritual crisis in Fuller's life; and a mature period in 1844, during which Fuller wrote ...

In the following essay, Adams proposes that when assessed by Romantic literary aesthetics, Fuller's seemingly aimless travel narrative possesses an identifiable structure.

In the following introduction to her edition of a collection of Fuller's writings, Dickenson surveys Fuller's life, thought, and works.