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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... Harvard in 1818 , studied in Germany , and then was admitted to the New York bar . On 3 September 1833 he married Susan Woodward Haven ( 1807-68 ) , daughter of John and Ann Woodward Haven of Portsmouth , New Hampshire ( Ipswich ...
... Harvard in 1825 and from the Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1828 ( Harvard archives ) . 12. On 18 August the Reverend Henry Bellows ( 1814-82 ) married Eliza Townsend ( 1818-69 ) , daughter of Elihu Townsend , a New ...