Margaret Fuller
(1810 - 1850)
American essayist, critic, travel writer, translator, and poet.
Margaret Fuller: Introduction
Margaret Fuller: Principal Works
Margaret Fuller: Primary Sources
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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...
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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., Mar...
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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...
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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 cent...
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"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...
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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, Fuller from youth concentrated on c...
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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...
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Margaret Fuller has been the target of more praise and more criticism for her work and her life than any other woman of the Transcendental period. She has been dismissed on one hand as a "bluestocking...
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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...
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In the following review, the critic asserts that Woman in the Nineteenth Century lacks formal structure and rigorous analysis of a clearly stated thesis, but commends the intelligence and eloquence fo...
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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...
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In the following excerpt, Blanchard discusses the series of "Conversations," paid seminars combining elements of entertainment, instruction, and intellectual development for women which ...
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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...
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In the following essay, Adams proposes that when assessed by Romantic literary aesthetics, Fuller's seemingly aimless travel narrative possesses an identifiable structure.
From its publication,...
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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...
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In the following excerpt, Chevigny comments on the quality of Fuller's writing.
[It] is appropriate to remark on the quality of Fuller's writing. While it can be argued that certain soci...
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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, '...
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Fuller, Margaret
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret (Fuller marchesa d') Ossoli
