The Letters of Margaret Fuller (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Fuller
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: 1817-1849
- Setting: The United States, England, Italy, and France
- Principal Characters: Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margarett Crane Fuller, Timothy Fuller, Frederick Henry Hedge, James Nathan, Giovanni Angelo Ossoli, Susan Prescott, Caroline Sturgis
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Intellectuals, Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, Feminism, Transcendentalism
- Locales: France, United States, England, Italy
Form and Content
The Letters of Margaret Fuller, comprising five volumes and almost nine hundred letters, provides a rich and complex record of the life and ideas of this prominent nineteenth century American intellectual and feminist. The letters cover virtually her entire life, beginning with one she wrote at age seven and concluding with those of 1849, less than one year before her death. They are organized chronologically by year; each volume has a separate preface that summarizes the major events, both personal and historical, of the years of that volume....
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