Pulitzer Prize Biography Winner
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
by Megan Marshall
Summary
Marshall reconstructs the life of the pioneering writer and critic who became a leading voice of the Transcendentalist movement in nineteenth century America. The book follows Fuller from her demanding early education through her landmark feminist work and her reporting from revolutionary Italy. It portrays a fiercely intelligent woman who insisted on equality long before the wider culture was ready to hear her.
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Historical Context & Significance
Fuller wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century, an early feminist landmark, and died in a shipwreck off Fire Island in 1850.