Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, Library Edition

from ImperfectCJ

Although I've found the name Margaret Fuller familiar probably since my women's studies classes in college, I didn't really learn about her until our minister gave a sermon about her this spring. After the sermon I asked the minister for suggestions for further reading, and she recommended The Li...

from BrokenTeepee

I went into this book with the barest knowledge of Margaret Fuller. I'm now a bit more educated as to this remarkable woman born into the wrong time. But perhaps she was needed then to help enlighten those who would take the spark of an idea that women were more than mothers, more than housewives...

from steller0707

Megan Marshall's book is a wonderfully readable account of the life of Boston-born Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), an early feminist. Her father was her primary educator, “designing” her course of study at home. A tough taskmaster he was, which turned out to be of great value to her, for he died you...

from Jaylia3

"I will never do as Waldo does . . . flee to the woods" Margaret Fuller was the intellectual equal of her close friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, but while he was retiring she had a passionate, engage-the-world personality that makes Megan Marshall's thoroughly researched and engaging biography of her ...

from muddyboy

An intimate and sensitive telling of the life of one of America's greatest minds who is thwarted by her gender from her ambitions and also sadly in her quest to find a mutual true love. Margaret Fuller is always questing for the things missing in her life. She becomes close friends with Emerson, ...