Margaret Fuller

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Standard Name: Fuller, Margaret
Birth Name: Sarah Margaret Fuller
Married Name: Sarah Margaret Ossoli
Used Form: Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Titled: Sarah Margaret, Marchesa d'Ossoli
An important social and cultural critic in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, MF published in a variety of forms, including travel literature, translations from German (notably Goethe , about whom she also published critical work), poetry, letters, and journalism. She was first editor of The Dial, journal of the Transcendental Club, and the earliest influential US woman journalist. She is perhaps best remembered today for Woman in the Nineteenth Century, described by one critic as the first American book defining the place of women in society, and offering a coherent alternative to their position.
Rosenthal, Bernard, and Margaret Fuller. “Introduction”. Woman in the Nineteenth Century, W. W. Norton, 1971, p. v - ix.
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Half-length engraving of Margaret Fuller after a painting by Thomas Hicks. She sits holding a book on her lap, wearing a dress with a bow at its V neck, her hair smooth in front and wavy behind.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Mary Ann Kelty
The tone is attractively ruminative: at the outset MAK considers her motives and methods. Unquestionably, there is an abundance of vanity at the root of this desire to publish our lonely effusions; but we must...
Textual Production Julia Ward Howe
Having already published a biography of Margaret Fuller in 1883, JWH followed it with an introduction to Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1845-1846, which appeared in print this year.
Howe, Julia Ward. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli). Roberts Bros., 1883.
Prefatory note
Howe, Julia Ward, and Margaret Fuller. “Introduction”. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1845-1846, D. Appleton, 1903, p. v - xii.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Camilla Crosland
In the preface she declares that she sought to simply set before the young women of the present day examples of wives and mothers who have done their duty under difficulties and temptations; and if...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Irish Leaders and Martyrs, an interesting study in intellectual leadership, touches on the power of writing such as ballads, but does not discuss any women. American Women is an insightful study of historical and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Edith Sitwell
This book depends on poking fun at its subjects, and invites its readers to join in Sitwell's superior amusement. Some of her subjects deserve better, like Margaret Fuller , who (despite the adjective in the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Josepha Hale
In keeping with her dedication, SJH represents women writers as inhabiting very much a man's world. Her entry on Margaret Fuller , for instance, goes into detail on Fuller's father but does not mention her...

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