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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... coming week ! And am I not born to set an example of friendship and all the other virtues ? Is not my superiority to be sus- tained as a thing of course ? I will write ! My dear Cary , I thank you very much for the little writing case ...
... coming week I must give to setting mine house in order . With my class I shall begin the first Wednesday in Novr , a fort night from next Wednesday . It is as yet quite small . All the Jacksons have signed off , including probably ...
... coming to you ; that seems feasible . ' No , I have not heard the result of your projects , but I thought you were not sufficiently in light as to what you wanted , to succeed . Cela n'est pas votre metier , je crois.3 All you could ...