Volume 49, Number 9 · May 23, 2002
A Star Is Born
By Caleb Crain
'My Heart Is a Large Kingdom': Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller
edited by Robert N. Hudspeth
Cornell University Press, 336 pp., $29.95
Margaret Fuller, Critic: Writings from the New-York Tribune, 1844–1846
edited by Judith Mattson Beanand Joel Myerson
Columbia University Press, 491 pp., with CD-ROM, $75.00
When Margaret Fuller moved to New York in 1844, she was an unlikely candidate for celebrity. Although she dressed neatly, she was plain. Thirty-four years old, still a virgin, she squinted and blinked excessively, and had 'a fashion of moving her neck, and of looking at her shoulders as if she admired them.'[1] The neck-twisting may have been a nervous response to scoliosis. Her spine was curved so sharply that she wore a horsehair shoulder pad to make her shoulders look even.
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