Fuller in her own time : a biographical chronicle of her life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates / edited by Joel Myerson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Myerson, Joel.

Series:

Writers in their own time (University of Iowa Press)

Writers in their own time

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850.

Fuller, Margaret.

Women authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Women authors, American.

Feminists--United States--Biography.

Feminists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2008]

Summary:

Writer, editor, journalist, educator, feminist, conversationalist, and reformer Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), whose Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major book-length feminist call to action in America, was one of the leading intellectuals of nineteenth-century America as well as a prominent member of Concord literary circles. Yet the challenging spirit behind her intellectual confidence and mesmerizing energy led to the invention of an unbalanced legacy that denied her a place among the canonical Concord writers. This collection of forty-one first-hand reminiscences by those who knew Fuller personally-including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, Harriet Martineau, and Henry James provides a clearer identity for this misrepresented personality.

Contents:

[Fuller as a Schoolgirl in 1819-1820] / Oliver Wendell Holmes 1

[Journal Comments on Fuller in 1836 and 1838] / Amos Bronson Alcott 3

[Epistolary Comments on Fuller in 1836, 1843, and 1850] / Lidian Jackson Emerson 7

[Fuller in Providence in 1837-1838] / Charles T. Congdon 9

[Fuller as a Teacher in 1837-1838] / Mary Ware Allen 11

[Fuller as a Teacher in 1838] / Evelina Metcalf 20

[Fuller as a Teacher in 1838] / Ann Brown 24

[Fuller as a Teacher in 1838-1839] / Anna Gale and Others 26

[Fuller's Conversations in 1839 and 1840] / Elizabeth Palmer Peabody 37

[Epistolary and Journal Comments on Fuller in 1839, 1841, and 1842] / Nathaniel Hawthorne 47

[Epistolary Comments on Fuller in 1839, 1841, and 1850] / Elizabeth Hoar 50

[Journal Comments on Fuller in 1840] / Theodore Parker 53

[Fuller's Conversations in 1841] / Caroline Healey Dall 55

[Fuller in New York in 1844-1846] / Horace Greeley 63

"The Literati of New York City" (1846) / Edgar Allan Poe 72

[Fuller at the Italian School, London, in 1846] / C. S. H. 74

[Epistolary Comments on Fuller in 1846 and 1852] / Thomas Carlyle 77

[Fuller in Italy in 1847] / George Palmer Putnam 79

[Fuller in Rome in 1847-1849] / Emelyn Story 81

[Fuller in Rome in 1849] / Frederick William Gale 92

[Fuller in Florence in 1850] / William Henry Hurlbert 94

[Fuller's Death in 1850] / William Henry Channing 102

[Epistolary Comments on Fuller in 1850, 1851, and 1852] / Mary Moody Emerson 109

[Epistolary Comments on Fuller in 1851] / William Ellery Channing the Younger 112

[Journal Comments on Fuller in 1851 and 1852] / Caroline Healey Dall 115

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852) / William Henry Channing 119

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852) / Frederic Henry Hedge 127

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852) / James Freeman Clarke 132

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852) / Ralph Waldo Emerson 139

[Epistolary Comments on Fuller in 1852] / Sarah Helen Whitman 155

[Epistolary and Other Comments on Fuller in 1856, 1882, and 1884] / George William Curtis 157

From "Margaret Fuller Ossoli" (1861) / Henry Giles 163

[Anniversary Celebration of Fuller's Sixtieth Birthday] (1870) / Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederic Henry Hedge 168

From Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (1877) / Harriet Martineau 170

[Margaret Fuller] (1884) / Sarah Freeman Clarke 173

[Journal Comments on Fuller in 1858] (1884) / Nathaniel Hawthorne 175

From Reminiscences of Ednah Dow Cheney (1902) / Ednah Dow Cheney 179

[The "Margaret-ghost"] (1903) / Henry James 182

From Alcott Memoirs (1915) / Frederick L. H. Willis 185

[A Brother's Memories of Fuller] (1936) / Richard Frederick Fuller 187

[Reminiscences of Margaret Fuller] (1974) / Caroline Healey Dall 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index.

ISBN:

9781587296918

1587296918

OCLC:

226357361