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A woman of many gifts, Margaret Fuller (1810–50) is most aptly remembered as America's first true feminist. Her 1845 work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, is regarded as the United States' first feminist publication, a groundbreaking book that helped reshape gender roles for women as well as men. Fuller was one of the few female members of the Transcendentalist movement, and in her brief yet fruitful life, she was an author, editor, literary and...
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In this influential book, the prototypical feminist writer of her day addressed a range of issues, from the Woman Question to prostitution and slavery, marriage and employment reform, and the European revolutionary movements of the 1840s. A thought-provoking challenge to contemporary assumptions of male privilege, it is a feminist literature classic.
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"Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems" by Margaret Fuller. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all...
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2013
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Explores the life and career of the 19th-century American journalist, intellectual, and advocate of personal liberation.
The author tells the story of how Fuller, tired of Boston, accepted Horace Greeley's offer to be the New York Tribune's front-page columnist. The move unleashed a crusading concern for the urban poor and the plight of prostitutes, and a late-in-life hunger for passionate experience. In Italy as a foreign correspondent, Fuller took...
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℗♭2007
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"Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the well-known literary personages who produced such cherished works as The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Walden, and Little Women. Rendering in full color the tumultuous, often scandalous lives of these volatile...
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This 1884 volume in the American “Men of Letters” series presents the biography of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, better known as Margaret Fuller, a proto-feminist and leading transcendentalist. Drawing on her letters and papers, Higginson takes pains to show her as a woman of action as well as intellect.
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Writer, critic, and transcendentalist Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was a pioneering feminist. This 1883 biography by a social activist famous in her own right gives us Fuller's childhood, the writing of her groundbreaking Woman in the Nineteenth Century, her work as an early female newspaper correspondent, and her role in Italy's revolution.
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Margaret Fuller and Women's Role in Transcendentalism is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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Originally published in 1905, Daughters of the Puritans captures the lives of seven extraordinary American women from the New England area, whose influential writings and work in the nineteenth century transformed the nation.
This audiobook contains biographies of:
Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1789—1867
Mary Lovell Ware - 1798—1849
Lydia Maria Child - 1802—1880
Dorothea Lynde Dix - 1802—1887
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli - 1810—1850
Harriet...
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A brilliant, controversial, and fascinating biography of those who were, in the mid-nineteenth century, the center of American thought and literature.Concord, Massachusetts, 1849. At various times, three houses on the same road were home to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry and John Thoreau, Bronson Alcott and his daughter Louisa May, Nathanial Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller. Among their friends and neighbors: Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman,...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe.--Helen Hunt Jackson.--Lucretia Mott.--Mary A. Livermore.--Margaret Fuller Ossoli.--Maria Mitchell.--Louisa M. Alcott.--Mary Lyon.--Harriet G. Hosmer.--Madame de Stael.--Rosa Bonheur.--Elizabeth Barrett Browning.--"George Eliot."--Elizabeth Fry.--Elizabeth Thompson Butler.--Florence Nightingale.--Lady Brassey.--Baroness Burdett-Coutts.--Jean Ingelow.
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2019.
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Journey back in time with this collection of classic travel writing from great authors and adventurers. These extraordinary odysseys over land and sea captivated audiences and gave them a glimpse into countries, cities and cultures like never before. Tales include Robert Byron's ten-month journey through Persia to Afghanistan in the early 30s; Jack London's 1907 sailing adventure across the south Pacific; and Teddy Roosevelt's scientific exploration...
