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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... given her time and wisdom far beyond the call of friendship , and Charles Mann , Rare Books and Manuscripts Li- brarian of the Pennsylvania State University , has acquired Fuller ma- terial for this edition and given me very helpful ...
... given her his for the first half of 1839 when they met on 2 November ; she gave him hers for 1837 when they met on the sixteenth . Alcott gave a series of lectures , “ Interpretations of Christianity , " beginning on Sunday , 3 November ...
... given me a headache this evening so I have begged the pen of our friend Sarah- Mr Hillard said such a small child was never be- fore made such a fuss about before so large a public ; counting up the persons now engaged in settling the ...