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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... hope , but my imagination , I will tell you that I once looked forward to the time when you might hold as high a place in my life as she . I thought of all women but you two as my children , my pupils , my play things or my acquaintance ...
... hope yours MARGARET F. ALS ( MH : bмS Am 1221 [ 234 ] ) . Addressed : Miss Caroline Sturgis / Summer St. Endorsed : 1840- hope . For ] hope . ( ? ) For till I can ] till I ( was ) can what is in ] what ( was ) is in my response is ...
... hope pervade the essays in every form I hope there will neither be a spirit of dogmatism nor of compromise . That this periodical will not aim at leading public opinion , but at stimulating each man to think for himself , to think more ...