The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1839-41Cornell University Press, 1983 - 278 pages This second volume publishes all of Margaret Fuller's letters written from 1839 to 1841--the years in which she first began to achieve fame as a writer and an editor. Addressed to such eminent figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William H. Channing, Elizabeth Peabody, and Frederic H. hedge as well as to Fuller's family and intimate friends, these letters record the years of her involvement in the Transcendentalist Club--a group of liberal clergymen and writers who gathered to discuss theology, literature, and philosophy. In 1839 the Club decided to found a magazine, The Dial; Fuller became the editor, and at last she had a forum for her innovative views of literature and of literary criticism. These are also the years of her famous "conversations" for women--weekly discussions of mythology which were attended by twenty-five of the most prominent women in the area. The letters chronicle the most emotionally turbulent period in her life. In the course of little more than a year she was rejected by the man she loved, Samuel G. Ward, who then married her close friend Anna Barker; she was rebuffed by Emerson as well; and she underwent a profound religious experience that she felt changed her life. |
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... school in Boston where Fuller had served as an assistant . In his journal for 1838 , Alcott records the meeting with Fuller , who was on her way home to Groton from Hiram Fuller's Greene - Street School in Providence , where she had ...
... school in Illinois , Arthur became a minister . He volunteered as a private in the Civil War and died at Fredericksburg . 1. Richard Frederick Fuller , then fifteen years old , was Margaret's favorite brother . Like Eugene and Arthur ...
... school I do not think I can give you much advice which would be of value unless I knew your position more in detail . ' The important rule is , as " in all relations with our fellow creatures , Never forget that , if they are imperfect ...