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...

"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 concentrated. I feel that I am one of those persons in...

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," and on the other as a coarse, conceited, immoral,...

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 held for the nineteenth century, Margaret Fuller has...

Sarah 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, Fuller from youth concentrated on cultivating her mental powers and...

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 cultivating her mental powers and competing with men...

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...