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The lives of Margaret Fuller a biography

An account of the brilliant writer and a fiery social critic Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) who became the leading female figure in the transcendentalist movement, wrote a celebrated column of literary and social commentary for Horace Greeley's newspaper, and served as the first foreign correspondent f...

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Main Author: Matteson, John
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Fuller, Margaret, > 1810-1850.
Women authors, American > 19th century > Biography.
Feminists > Biography.
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Summary:An account of the brilliant writer and a fiery social critic Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) who became the leading female figure in the transcendentalist movement, wrote a celebrated column of literary and social commentary for Horace Greeley's newspaper, and served as the first foreign correspondent for an American newspaper. Amid all these strivings and achievements, she authored the first great work of American feminism: Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
Item Description:Subtitle from dust jacket.
Physical Description:xvi, 510 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-[495]) and index.
ISBN:0393068056 (hardcover)
9780393068054 (hardcover)
Author Notes:John Matteson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Eden's Outcasts and the Ann M. Sperber Prize for The Lives of Margaret Fuller . A Distinguished Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, he lives in the Bronx.

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