Margaret Fuller: A Brief Biography with Documents
The first brief biography with documents of an important nineteenth-century American feminist, literary figure and journalist, a revolutionary abroad and a major writer of the American Renaissance at home. This account contains also selections from her private letters and published poetry, books, literary criticism and journalism. There is a substantial introduction
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As a well-known editor and journalist, Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) questioned the conventional boundaries that circumscribed American society in the first half of the nineteenth century. This collection of her letters, essays, poems, and journalism reveals a woman who developed a feminist and humanist vision that transcended class, racial, national, and gender borders.
ForewordPrefacePt. 1Minerva and the Muse11A Question of Identity32Childhood and Education63Spiritual Crisis and Vision144Inside and Outside Transcendentalism195Turning "All to Muse"386New York and Europe517Conclusion: Margaret Fuller's Legacy67Pt. 2The Documents778Early Letters and "Autobiographical Sketch"799Dial Essays and Meditations11010Summer on the Lakes12411The Poetry of 184415312Woman in the Nineteenth Century15613New York Journalism19214European Dispatches and Letters20915Contemporary Responses to Fuller229AppA Fuller Chronology (1810-1850)238App. Questions for Consideration240App. Selected Bibliography241Index247
