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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... meet you may " probably perceive all in me . When we meet you will find me at home . Into that home cold winds may blow , 158 The Letters of Margaret Fuller September, to Caroline Sturgis.
... meet solely for society . At sunset many of course would be out in their boats , but they would love the hour too much ever to disturb one another . I saw the spot where we should meet to discuss the high mysteries that Milton speaks of ...
... meet a person on business , which will prevent my seeing you in the morng but in the aftn and evening I shall be disengaged , and will come to Mr Adams's at four p m . if that suits you . If in the eveg , please call on me at Dr ...