The Portable Margaret Fuller

Introduction by Mary Kelley
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On sale Oct 01, 1994 | 576 Pages | 9780140176650

"Indispensable to students of antebellum culture."—Philip F. Gura, Univ. of North Carolina. "A highly valuable resource for students of American Studies and Women's Studies alike."—Donald Pease, UC-Riverside.
Introduction
Chronology
A Note on the Texts
Autobiographical Sketch
(Initially published in Memoirs)
Bettine Brentano and Her Friend Günderode
(Initially published in the Dial)
Summer on the Lakes, During 1843
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
New-York Daily Tribune Columns
Emerson's Essays: Second Series
Our City Charities. Visit to Bellevue Alms House, to the Farm School, the Asylum for the Insane, and Penitentiary on Blackwell's Island
Prevalent Idea that Politeness Is Too Great a Luxury to Be Given to the Poor
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
Asylum for Discharged Female Convicts
What Fits a Man to Be a Voter? Is it to Be White Within, or White Without
New-York Daily Tribune Dispatches
Paris, Nov. 1846
Paris [Undated]
[Undated]
[Undated]
Rome, 29th March, 1848
Rome, December 2, 1848
Rome, December 2, 1848
Rome, Evening of Feb. 20, 1849
Rome, 6th May, 1849
Rome, May 27, 1849
Rome, June 10, 1849
Rome, July 6, 1849
Letters
Suggested Reading
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), a brilliant intellectual and courageous radical thinker, is most often associated with the Transcendentalist movement of the nineteenth century. Fuller, a mentor to the women who would lead the abolitionist and suffragist movements, penned America's first feminist treatise, Woman in the Nineteenth Century. View titles by Margaret Fuller

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"Indispensable to students of antebellum culture."—Philip F. Gura, Univ. of North Carolina. "A highly valuable resource for students of American Studies and Women's Studies alike."—Donald Pease, UC-Riverside.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chronology
A Note on the Texts
Autobiographical Sketch
(Initially published in Memoirs)
Bettine Brentano and Her Friend Günderode
(Initially published in the Dial)
Summer on the Lakes, During 1843
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
New-York Daily Tribune Columns
Emerson's Essays: Second Series
Our City Charities. Visit to Bellevue Alms House, to the Farm School, the Asylum for the Insane, and Penitentiary on Blackwell's Island
Prevalent Idea that Politeness Is Too Great a Luxury to Be Given to the Poor
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
Asylum for Discharged Female Convicts
What Fits a Man to Be a Voter? Is it to Be White Within, or White Without
New-York Daily Tribune Dispatches
Paris, Nov. 1846
Paris [Undated]
[Undated]
[Undated]
Rome, 29th March, 1848
Rome, December 2, 1848
Rome, December 2, 1848
Rome, Evening of Feb. 20, 1849
Rome, 6th May, 1849
Rome, May 27, 1849
Rome, June 10, 1849
Rome, July 6, 1849
Letters
Suggested Reading

Author

Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), a brilliant intellectual and courageous radical thinker, is most often associated with the Transcendentalist movement of the nineteenth century. Fuller, a mentor to the women who would lead the abolitionist and suffragist movements, penned America's first feminist treatise, Woman in the Nineteenth Century. View titles by Margaret Fuller

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