The Washington Post, August 4th, 1991
Summer 1846. Socialism and republicanism, liberty and freedom from repression were stirring up Paris and Rome, Poland and Hungary. The same feelings churned inside Margaret Fuller, an outspoken, well-educated American "spinster" of 36. Fuller, a prominent journalist and feminist, left Boston in the summer of 1846 to cover the changing European scene for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. The first American female foreign correspondent, she was leaving town in a blaze of publicity over her new book, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," a provocative and moving plea for women's rights. She was als...
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