The complete online text of Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Margaret Fuller.

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 won...

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 remarkable...

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 recogni...

One thing leads to another. The year 2000 marked the 100th year of the death of eminent Victorian art critic, writer, reformer John Ruskin. Coincident with celebratory exhibits both in England and in this country, there appeared a de-mythologizing play about Ruskin...

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...