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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... written and com- pared it with the orig and wrote out the remainder All the other writing I have done has been the other letters and a very little in my journal . All the reading I did was occasionally when lying down in day time Mr ...
Margaret Fuller Robert N. Hudspeth. intended writing you ] intended writing ( t ) you by post and ask you ] by post ↑ and ask ... written on modern French literature , her journal of a trip to Bristol she had just made , and some journal ...
... writing a long essay . Here are Chapman and Tennyson , and Mr E's letter which give me tomorrow . Please keep this ... written on one of the Tuesdays in March . 2. Ruth Gibbs of Rhode Island married Dr. William Ellery Channing in 1814 ...