Background
Margaret Fuller was born on May 23, 1810, in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, United States. She was the eldest child of Timothy Fuller (1778 - 1835), a lawyer and politician, and Margaret Crane Fuller.
(Summer on the Lakes By Margaret Fuller)
Summer on the Lakes By Margaret Fuller
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The leading feminist intellectual of her day, Margaret Fuller has been remembered for her groundbreaking work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, which recharted the gender roles of nineteenth-century men and women. In this new collection, the full range of her literary career is represented from her earliest poetry to her final dispatch from revolutionary Italy. For the first time, the complete texts of Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Summer on the Lakes are printed together, along with generous selections from Fuller's Dial essays, New York essays, Italian dispatches, and unpublished journals. Special features are the complete text of Fuller's famous "Autobiographical Romance" (never before reprinted in its entirety) and nineteen of her poems, edited from her manuscripts. All of Fuller's major texts are completely annotated, with special attention to her literary and historical sources, as well as her knowledge of American Indian culture, mythology, and the Bible Jeffrey Steele's introduction provides an important revision of Fuller's biography and literary career, tracing the growth of her feminism and her development into one of America's preeminent social critics. No other writer of Fuller's day could match the range of her experience. Growing up in the world of Boston intellectuals, she was the close friend of the Alcotts, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau. But she also traveled adventurously to the western frontier, canoed down rapids with Chippewa Indians, visited the outcast and the poor in New York's institutions and prisons, and experienced the rigors of war during the bombardment of Rome. As a whole, this anthology provides the material to understand one of the most fascinating nineteenth-century American women writers.
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A woman of many gifts, Margaret Fuller (18101850) is most aptly remembered as America's first true feminist. In her brief yet fruitful life, she was variously author, editor, literary and social critic, journalist, poet, and revolutionary. She was also one of the few female members of the prestigious Transcendentalist movement, whose ranks included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and many other prominent New England intellectuals of the day. As co-editor of the transcendentalist journal, The Dial, Fuller was able to give voice to her groundbreaking social critique on woman's place in society, the genesis of the book that was later to become Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Published in 1843, this essay was entitled "The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men, Woman versus Women." First published in book form in 1845, Woman in the Nineteenth Century was correctly perceived as the controversial document that it was: receiving acclaim and achieving popular success in some quarters (the first printing sold out within a week), at the same time that it inspired vicious attacks from opponents of the embryonic women's movement. In this book, whose style is characterized by the trademark textual diversity of the transcendentalists, Fuller articulates values arising from her passionate belief in justice and equality for all humankind, with a particular focus on women. Although her notion of basic rights certainly includes those of an educational, economic, and legal nature, it is intellectual expansion and changes in the prevailing attitudes towards women (by men and women) that Fuller cherishes far above the superficial manifestations of liberation. A classic of feminist thought that helped bring about the Seneca Falls Women's Convention three years after its publication, Woman in the Nineteenth Century inspired her contemporaries Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to speak of Fuller as possessing "more influence upon the thought of American women than any woman previous to her time."
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The text is that of the first edition and includes comprehensive textual annotations. "Backgrounds" reveals the experiential basis for the text through autobiographical writings and selections from Fullers recently published letters, journals, and "Boston Conversations." "Criticism and Reviews" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel. The critics include Orestes A. Brownson, A. G. M, Lydia Maria Child, Frederic Dan Huntington, Edgar A. Poe, Charles Lane, George Eliot, Margaret Vanderhaar Allen, David M. Robinson, Bell Gale Chevigny, Julie Ellison, Christina Zwarg, and Jeffery Steele. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
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"Indispensable to students of antebellum culture."Philip F. Gura, Univ. of North Carolina. "A highly valuable resource for students of American Studies and Women's Studies alike."Donald Pease, UC-Riverside.
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Margaret Fuller was born on May 23, 1810, in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, United States. She was the eldest child of Timothy Fuller (1778 - 1835), a lawyer and politician, and Margaret Crane Fuller.
Margaret's father taught her to read and write at the age of three and a half. She attended a female seminary to learn the social graces appropriate to a young lady, and though she mingled with Harvard students and acquired a reputation for being a sharp and intelligent conversationalist, she always regretted that as a woman she was denied a formal Harvard education.
After Margaret's father's death in 1835, she went to Boston to teach languages, and in 1837 she was chosen principal teacher in the Green Street School, Providence, Rhode Island, where she remained till 1839. From this year until 1844 she stayed at different places in the immediate neighborhood of Boston, forming an intimate acquaintance with the colonists of Brook Farm, and numbering among her closest friends R. W. Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and W. H. Channing.
In 1839 Margaret published a translation of Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe, which was followed in 1842 by a translation of the correspondence between Karoline von Gunderode and Bettina von Arnim, entitled Gunderode. Aided by R. W. Emerson and George Ripley, she in 1840 started The Dial, a poetical and philosophical magazine representing the opinions and aims of the New England Transcendentalists. This journal she continued to edit for two years, and while in Boston she also conducted conversation classes for ladies in which philosophical and social subjects were discussed with a somewhat over-accentuated earnestness. These meetings may be regarded as perhaps the beginning of the modern movement on behalf of women's rights.
By the age of thirty, Fuller had a reputation as the most well-read person in New England and was also the first woman to have access to the Harvard College library. Her historical work "Woman of the XIX century" was published in 1845. A year later, the Tribune editors sent her to Europe as their first female correspondent. She was carried away by the ideas of the Italian revolution and became close to Giuseppe Mazzini. She died with her family in a shipwreck near the US coast (near the coast of Fire Island), when they returned to the United States in 1850. The body of Margaret Fuller was never found.
Fuller was the first woman on an American newspaper’s editorial staff, she also was America’s first woman foreign correspondent and became the first woman allowed to use the library at Harvard College. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Fuller was famous for her advocacy of the rights of women, in particular the right to education and the right to work. She became the ideological inspirer of many other reforms in society, in particular prison reform, liberation from slavery in the United States.
( The leading feminist intellectual of her day, Margaret ...)
( A woman of many gifts, Margaret Fuller (18101850) is m...)
( The text is that of the first edition and includes comp...)
("Indispensable to students of antebellum culture."Philip...)
(Summer on the Lakes By Margaret Fuller)
Margaret supported Giuseppe Mazzini's revolution for the establishment of a Roman Republic in 1849.
Based in the transcendental idealism of Kant, she believed that the mind was not a blank slate, rather, that experience persupposed certain a priori forms which are imposed on sense data. Fuller argued for an essentially androgynous understanding of the intellect and emotions which would acknowledge both the feminine and the masculine in men’s and women’s minds.
Quotations: "There is no wholly masculine man ... no purely feminine but that both were present in any individual."
Quotes from others about the person
R. W. Emerson, who had met her as early as 1836, thus describes her appearance: " She was then twenty-six years old. She had a face and frame that would indicate fulness and tenacity of life. She was rather under the middle height; her complexion was fair, with strong fair hair. She was then, as always, carefully and becomingly dressed, and of ladylike self-possession. For the rest her appearance had nothing prepossessing. Her extreme plainness, a trick of incessantly opening and shutting her eyelids, the nasal tone of her voice, all repelled; and I said to myself we shall never get far."
Margaret had an affair with Giovanni Ossoli, from whom she gave birth to their son, Angelo. Whether they ever married is uncertain. Biographers have speculated that the couple married on April 4, 1848, to celebrate the anniversary of their first meeting.
