Volume 33, Number 6 · April 10, 1986
The Genius of Margaret Fuller
By Elizabeth Hardwick
BOOKS USED IN THIS ESSAY
The Letters of Margaret Fuller Vol. 1: 1817–1838 Vol. 2: 1839–1841 Vol. 3: 1842–1844
edited by Robert N. Hudspeth
Cornell University Press (two further volumes in preparation), Vol. 3, 269 pp., $25.00 each volume
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
edited by R. W. Emerson, edited by W.H. Channing, edited by J.F. Clarke
Burt Franklin (reprint of 1884 edition), 755 pp., $39.00
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
by Margaret Fuller
Norton, 212 pp., $6.95 (paper)
The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings
by Bell Gale Chevigny
The Feminist Press, 500 pp., $8.95 (paper)
The Roman Years of Margaret Fuller
by Joseph Jay Deiss
Thomas Y. Crowell (1969, out of print)
Margaret Fuller, American Romantic: A Selection From Her Writings and Correspondence
edited with an introduction and notes by Perry Miller
Anchor (1963, out of print)
The American Transcendentalists: Their Prose and Poetry
edited by Perry Miller
Johns Hopkins University Press, 400 pp., $6.95 (paper)
Margaret Fuller Ossoli
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Greenwood Press (originally published by Houghton Mifflin, 1890), 323 pp., $39.95
Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller
with an introduction by Julia Ward Howe
AMS Press (reprint of 1903 edition), 248 pp., $19.45
Italian Nationalism and English Letters
by Harry W. Rudman
AMS Press (originally published by Columbia University Press, 1940), 444 pp., $17.50
So passed away the loftiest, bravest soul that has yet irradiated the form of an American woman: thus wrote the editor, Horace Greeley. Yet before this noble soul, Margaret Fuller, passed away, many would have foregone irradiated in preference to irritated. She was brave and lofty and she did irradiate and also irritate, irritate herself especially with strained nerves, fantastical exertions, discomforts large and small.
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