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The lives of Margaret Fuller : [a biography] / John Matteson.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS2506 .M38 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matteson, John.
- 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:
- xvi, 510 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., [2012]
- Summary:
- An account of the brilliant writer and a fiery social critic Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) who became the leading female figure in the transcendentalist movement, wrote a celebrated column of literary and social commentary for Horace Greeley's newspaper, and served as the first foreign correspondent for an American newspaper. Amid all these strivings and achievements, she authored the first great work of American feminism: Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
- Contents:
- Prodigy
- Misfit
- "Margaret Goodchild"
- Apostle
- Conversationalist
- Ecstatic editor
- Seeker of Utopia
- Advocate
- Lover and critic
- Internationalist
- Inamorata
- Revolutionary
- Victim
- Margaret-ghost.
- Notes:
- Subtitle from dust jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [449]-[495]) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780393068054
- 0393068056
- OCLC:
- 738350021
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