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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... wish , but I suppose scarce any one would be philosophic enough to take an in- terest in them— 5 You are at liberty to show Mr E's letters to Jane and Marianne , " requesting them not to mention them to any one , as I do not wish to ...
... wish to do , and defer a full explanation to the first meeting . I wish you to use this communication according to your own judgment ; if it seems to you too meagre to give any notion of the plan , lay it aside and interpret for me to ...
... wish for I am not forgetting you . AL ( MH : bMS Am 1221 [ 240 ] ) . Addressed : Miss Caroline Sturgis / care S. Curson Esq . Newbury , / Mass . Postmark : Jamaica Plain MS Sep 10. Endorsed : Sept 8th 1840 . / S. M. Fuller . 1. Probably ...