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Margaret Fuller : A New American Life by Megan Marshall (2013, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100547195605
ISBN-139780547195605
eBay Product ID (ePID)99648627
Product Key Features
Book TitleMargaret Fuller : a New American Life
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicWomen, Feminism & Feminist Theory, American / General, Literary
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorMegan Marshall
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight25 oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Reviews"Megan Marshall's brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent." - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity "Megan Marshall gives new meaning to close reading-from words on a page she conjures a fantastically rich inner life, a meld of body, mind, and soul. Drawing on the letters and diaries of Margaret Fuller and her circle, she has brought us a brave, visionary, sensual, tough-minded intellectual, a 'first woman' who was unique yet stood for all women. A masterful achievement by a great American writer and scholar." - Evan Thomas, author of Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World "Megan Marshall's Margaret Fuller: A New American Life is the best single volume ever written on Fuller. Carefully researched and beautifully composed, the book brings Fuller back to life in all her intellectual vivacity and emotional intensity. Marshall's Fuller overwhelms the reader, just as Fuller herself overwhelmed everyone she met. A masterpiece of empathetic biography, this is the book Fuller herself would have wanted. You will not be able to put it down." - Robert D. Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire "A lively, intuitive study of a remarkable American character." - Kirkus Reviews "The book's success comes from the way that Marshall allows the reader to understand and empathize with Fuller in her plight." - Publishers Weekly "[Marshall] inhabits Fuller's dramatic, oft-told story with unique intimacy by virtue of her fluency in and judicious quoting of Fuller's extraordinarily vivid letters . . . Marshall brings stirring historical and psychological insights to Fuller's complicated relationship with Emerson and the other transcendentalists, her journey west and response to the horrific plight of Native Americans, her gripping dispatches on social ills as a front-page columnist for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, and her triumphs in Europe as 'America's first female foreign correspondent.' How spectacularly detailed and compassionate Marshall's chronicle is of Fuller's scandalous love for an Italian soldier, the birth of their son, her heroic coverage of the 1849 siege of Rome, and her and her family's tragic deaths when their ship wrecks in sight of the American coast. A magnificent biography of a revolutionary thinker, witness, and writer." - Booklist starred review, "Megan Marshall's brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent." - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity "Megan Marshall gives new meaning to close reading-from words on a page she conjures a fantastically rich inner life, a meld of body, mind, and soul. Drawing on the letters and diaries of Margaret Fuller and her circle, she has brought us a brave, visionary, sensual, tough-minded intellectual, a 'first woman' who was unique yet stood for all women. A masterful achievement by a great American writer and scholar. - Evan Thomas, author of Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World "Megan Marshall's Margaret Fuller: A New American Life is the best single volume ever written on Fuller. Carefully researched and beautifully composed, the book brings Fuller back to life in all her intellectual vivacity and emotional intensity. Marshall's Fuller overwhelms the reader, just as Fuller herself overwhelmed everyone she met. A masterpiece of empathetic biography, this is the book Fuller herself would have wanted. You will not be able to put it down." - Robert D. Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire "Fuller's was a great life, flush with drama, and Megan Marshall's new biography rises to it in ways small and large . . . This one pitches Ms. Marshall into the front rank of American biographers . . . 'Margaret Fuller' is as seductive as it is impressive . . . In Ms. Marshall, Fuller has found what feels like her ideal biographer." -- New York Times "A lively, intuitive study of a remarkable American character. - Kirkus Reviews "The book's success comes from the way that Marshall allows the reader to understand and empathize with Fuller in her plight." - Publishers Weekly "[Marshall] inhabits Fuller's dramatic, oft-told story with unique intimacy by virtue of her fluency in and judicious quoting of Fuller's extraordinarily vivid letters . . . Marshall brings stirring historical and psychological insights to Fuller's complicated relationship with Emerson and the other transcendentalists, her journey west and response to the horrific plight of Native Americans, her gripping dispatches on social ills as a front-page columnist for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, and her triumphs in Europe as 'America's first female foreign correspondent.' How spectacularly detailed and compassionate Marshall's chronicle is of Fuller's scandalous love for an Italian soldier, the birth of their son, her heroic coverage of the 1849 siege of Rome, and her and her family's tragic deaths when their ship wrecks in sight of the American coast. A magnificent biography of a revolutionary thinker, witness, and writer." - Booklist starred review, "Megan Marshall's brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent." -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity "Megan Marshall gives new meaning to close reading--from words on a page she conjures a fantastically rich inner life, a meld of body, mind, and soul. Drawing on the letters and diaries of Margaret Fuller and her circle, she has brought us a brave, visionary, sensual, tough-minded intellectual, a 'first woman' who was unique yet stood for all women. A masterful achievement by a great American writer and scholar." -- Evan Thomas, author of Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World "Megan Marshall's Margaret Fuller: A New American Life is the best single volume ever written on Fuller. Carefully researched and beautifully composed, the book brings Fuller back to life in all her intellectual vivacity and emotional intensity. Marshall's Fuller overwhelms the reader, just as Fuller herself overwhelmed everyone she met. A masterpiece of empathetic biography, this is the book Fuller herself would have wanted. You will not be able to put it down." -- Robert D. Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire "Fuller's was a great life, flush with drama, and Megan Marshall's new biography rises to it in ways small and large . . . This one pitches Ms. Marshall into the front rank of American biographers . . . 'Margaret Fuller' is as seductive as it is impressive . . . In Ms. Marshall, Fuller has found what feels like her ideal biographer." -- New York Times "A lively, intuitive study of a remarkable American character." -- Kirkus Reviews "The book's success comes from the way that Marshall allows the reader to understand and empathize with Fuller in her plight." -- Publishers Weekly "[Marshall] inhabits Fuller's dramatic, oft-told story with unique intimacy by virtue of her fluency in and judicious quoting of Fuller's extraordinarily vivid letters . . . Marshall brings stirring historical and psychological insights to Fuller's complicated relationship with Emerson and the other transcendentalists, her journey west and response to the horrific plight of Native Americans, her gripping dispatches on social ills as a front-page columnist for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, and her triumphs in Europe as 'America's first female foreign correspondent.' How spectacularly detailed and compassionate Marshall's chronicle is of Fuller's scandalous love for an Italian soldier, the birth of their son, her heroic coverage of the 1849 siege of Rome, and her and her family's tragic deaths when their ship wrecks in sight of the American coast. A magnificent biography of a revolutionary thinker, witness, and writer." -- Booklist starred review, "Megan Marshall's brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent." - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity "Megan Marshall gives new meaning to close reading-from words on a page she conjures a fantastically rich inner life, a meld of body, mind, and soul. Drawing on the letters and diaries of Margaret Fuller and her circle, she has brought us a brave, visionary, sensual, tough-minded intellectual, a 'first woman' who was unique yet stood for all women. A masterful achievement by a great American writer and scholar." - Evan Thomas, author of Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World "Megan Marshall's Margaret Fuller: A New American Life is the best single volume ever written on Fuller. Carefully researched and beautifully composed, the book brings Fuller back to life in all her intellectual vivacity and emotional intensity. Marshall's Fuller overwhelms the reader, just as Fuller herself overwhelmed everyone she met. A masterpiece of empathetic biography, this is the book Fuller herself would have wanted. You will not be able to put it down." - Robert D. Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire "Fuller's was a great life, flush with drama, and Megan Marshall's new biography rises to it in ways small and large . . . This one pitches Ms. Marshall into the front rank of American biographers . . . 'Margaret Fuller' is as seductive as it is impressive . . . In Ms. Marshall, Fuller has found what feels like her ideal biographer." -- New York Times "A lively, intuitive study of a remarkable American character." - Kirkus Reviews "The book's success comes from the way that Marshall allows the reader to understand and empathize with Fuller in her plight." - Publishers Weekly "[Marshall] inhabits Fuller's dramatic, oft-told story with unique intimacy by virtue of her fluency in and judicious quoting of Fuller's extraordinarily vivid letters . . . Marshall brings stirring historical and psychological insights to Fuller's complicated relationship with Emerson and the other transcendentalists, her journey west and response to the horrific plight of Native Americans, her gripping dispatches on social ills as a front-page columnist for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, and her triumphs in Europe as 'America's first female foreign correspondent.' How spectacularly detailed and compassionate Marshall's chronicle is of Fuller's scandalous love for an Italian soldier, the birth of their son, her heroic coverage of the 1849 siege of Rome, and her and her family's tragic deaths when their ship wrecks in sight of the American coast. A magnificent biography of a revolutionary thinker, witness, and writer." - Booklist starred review
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal818.309
Table Of ContentList of Illustrationsxiii Prologuexv Part I: Youth 1. Three Letters5 2. Ellen Kilshaw10 3. Theme: "Possunt quia posse videntur"20 4. Mariana28 Part II: Cambridge 5. The Young Lady's Friends39 6. Elective Affinities51 Part III: Groton and Providence 7. "My heart has no proper home"71 8. "Returned into life"89 9. "Bringing my opinions to the test"105 Part IV: concord, boston, jamaica plain 10. "What were we born to do?"127 11. "The gospel of Transcendentalism"142 12. Communities and Covenants163 13. "The newest new world"202 Part V: New York 14. "I stand in the sunny noon of life"223 15. "Flying on the paper wings of every day"235 16. "A human secret, like my own"244 Part VI: Europe 17. Lost on Ben Lomond269 18. "Rome has grown up in my soul"282 19. "A being born wholly of my being"315 Part VII: homeward 20. "I have lived in a much more full and true way"353 21. "No favorable wind"369 Epilogue: "After so dear a storm"379 Acknowledgments393 Notes397 Index451
SynopsisWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography The award-winning author of The Peabody Sisters takes a fresh look at the trailblazing life of a great American heroine--Thoreau's first editor, Emerson's close friend, first female war correspondent, passionate advocate of personal and political freedom., Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New England's intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed women's sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Transcendentalist literary journal the Dial shaped American Romanticism. Now, Megan Marshall, whose acclaimed The Peabody Sisters "discovered" three fascinating women, has done it again: no biography of Fuller has made her ideas so alive or her life so moving. Marshall tells the story of how Fuller, tired of Boston, accepted Horace Greeley's offer to be the New-York Tribune's front-page columnist. The move unleashed a crusading concern for the urban poor and the plight of prostitutes, and a late-in-life hunger for passionate experience. In Italy as a foreign correspondent, Fuller took a secret lover, a young officer in the Roman Guard; she wrote dispatches on the brutal 1849 Siege of Rome; and she gave birth to a son. Yet, when all three died in a shipwreck off Fire Island shortly after Fuller's fortieth birthday, the sense and passion of her life's work were eclipsed by tragedy and scandal. Marshall's inspired account brings an American heroine back to indelible life.
LC Classification NumberPS2506.M37 2013
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