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The lives of Margaret Fuller : [a biography]
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The lives of Margaret Fuller : [a biography]

Author: John Matteson
Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2012.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st ed
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Margaret Fuller
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Matteson
ISBN: 9780393068054 : 0393068056
OCLC Number: 738350021
Notes: Subtitle from dust jacket.
Description: xvi, 510 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Prodigy --
Misfit --
"Margaret Goodchild" --
Apostle --
Conversationalist --
Ecstatic editor --
Seeker of Utopia --
Advocate --
Lover and critic --
Internationalist --
Inamorata --
Revolutionary --
Victim --
Margaret-ghost.
Responsibility: John Matteson.

Abstract:

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.

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A 21st century approach to a 19th-century heroine

by CeCeS (WorldCat user published about a month ago) Excellent Permalink

Many authors have tackled this topic, but Mr. Matteson (a former winner of the Pulitzer of Biography for Eden's Outcasts) has not only outwritten them—his prose style is splendid—but launched a set of contemporary questions about our society's treatment of women and children.

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