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Book

Margaret Fuller : collected writings

Call Number

  • 814 F967 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2025]

Physical Description

xiv, 915 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Summary

"Transcendentalist, journalist, feminist, activist, public intellectual, war correspondent, poet: Margaret Fuller's achievement in her short life was as diverse, wide-ranging, and radical as her multi-generic writings. Now, at long last, this pioneering writer joins Library of America with the most comprehensive and most authoritative version of her writings ever published. Here are her two best-known books: Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, an account of her travels to the Great Lakes, a plea for better treatment of the American Indian peoples, and a sketchbook of Fuller's thought; and Woman in the Nineteenth Century, the foundational document of American feminism and the first major work on women's rights since Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman fifty-three years earlier. Joining them are a generous selection of Fuller's published essays and journalism, including "American Literature" and her reviews and columns for the New York Tribune, as well as her war correspondence from besieged Rome in 1849; unpublished writings and selections from Fuller's journals, many previously unknown and newly transcribed for this volume; and a selection of Fuller's letters, including three newly translated from the original Italian."--

Contents

  • Summer on the lakes, in 1843
  • Woman in the nineteenth century
  • Short published works
  • New England, 1839-1844. Translator's preface: conversations with Goethe in the last years of his life ; A short essay on critics ; A record of impressions: produced by the exhibition of Mr. Allston's pictures in the summer of 1839 ; The magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain ; Leila ; Yuca filamentosa ; From Bettine Brentano and her friend Gunderode
  • New York, 1844-1846. Emerson's essays ; French novelists of the day: Balzac, George Sand, Eugene Sue ; Review of Etherology; or The Philosophy of Mesmerism and Phrenology by J. Stanley Grimes ; Our city charities ; Prevalent idea that politeness is too great a luxury to be given to the poor ; Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass ; The Irish character ; Review of the Tales by Edgar Allan Poe ; The wrongs of American women. The duty of American women ; Review of Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Review of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ; 1st January, 1846 ; Review of Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Review of Memoirs, Official and Personal by Thomas L. M'Kenney ; Review of Ormond; Or, the Secret Witness and Wieland; Or, the Transformation by Charles Brockden Brown ; Farewell ; American literature: its position in the present time, and prospects for the future
  • Europe, 1846-1850. Letters from England ; Liverpool and Manchester ; Things and thoughts in Europe no. V ; Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots, and Ben Lomond ; Things and thoughts in Europe no. X ; London and Paris, French theater and literature ; Things and thoughts in Europe no. XIII ; Paris, Lyons, Naples ; To a daughter of Italy ; Poem in the People's Journal ; Things and thoughts in Europe no. XVIII ; American tourists and European and American politics ; Things and thoughts in Europe no. XIX ; Living in "the real Rome" ; Things and thoughts in Europe no. XXV ; The revolutions of 1848 in Italy ; Things and thoughts in Europe no. XXVI ; Revolutionary Rome ; Things and thoughts in Europe XXVIII ; Proclamation of the Roman Republic ; Undaunted Rome ; "I write you from barricaded Rome" ; Things and thoughts in Europe no. XXXIII ; The French army bombs and occupies Rome ; Italy ; "The next revolution, here and elsewhere, will be radical"
  • Unpublished writings. "Possent quia posse videntur" (c. pre-fall 1819) ; Autobiographical romance (1840) ; Fictional autobiographical fragment (c. 1841-42) ; A credo (1842) ; To Beethoven (1843) ; Chamois (c. 1844)
  • Journals. Poems and selections from journal fragments (1833-1844) ; From S.M. Fuller's bouquet--journal (c. 1836-1837) ; From reflections journal (c. 1839) ; From bound journal (c. 1839-40) ; From 1842 journal (August 18-September 25, 1842) ; From October 1842 journal ; From journal fragments (c. 1840, 1844) ; From manuscript tracing journal (1844) ; From Italy 1849 journal
  • Letters. To Timothy Fuller, April 24, 1817? ; First letter ; To Timothy Fuller, January 16, 1820 ; "I do not like Sarah, call me Margaret alone" ; To the Marquis de Lafayette, June 16, 1825? ; "The avenues of glory are seldom accessible" ; To Susan Prescott, July 11, 1825 ; "I am determined on distinction" ; To James Freeman Clarke, August 7, 1832 ; "I wish to talk with you now about the Germans" ; To James Freeman Clarke, April 19, 1836 ; Writing a biography of Goethe ; To Caroline Sturgis, November 16, 1837 ; Defending transcendentalism ; To Ralph Waldo Emerson, March 1, 1838 ; "I want to see you and still more to hear you" ; To Lidian Jackson Emerson, August 19, 1838 ; "Fret not that kindest heart" ; To Sophia Ripley?, August 27, 1839 ; "My plan for the proposed conversations" ; To unknown correspondent, November 25, 1839 ; "My class is singularly prosperous" ; To William Henry Channing, March 22, 1840 ; "When I write, it is into another world" ; To Ralph Waldo Emerson, September 29, 1840 ; "Did you not ask for a 'foe' in your friend?" ; To Henry David Thoreau, December 1, 1840 ; Rejecting a Dial submission ; To William Henry Channing, April 5, 1841 ; Beethoven's Fifth Symphony ; To Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 9, 1842 ; Handing over editorship of The Dial ; To Sophia Peabody, June 4, 1842 ; Peabody's wedding to Nathaniel Hawthorne ; To George T. David, December 17, 1842 ; "I have not lived my own life" ; To Richard F. Fuller, July 29, 1843 ; Visiting the Territory of Wisconsin ; To Caroline Sturgis, May 3, 1844 ; "The carbuncle" ; To Ralph Waldo Emerson, July 13, 1844 ; "You are intellect, I am life" ; To Elizabeth Hoar, October [28?], 1844 ; Visiting Sing Sing Prison ; To William Henry Channing, November 17, 1844 ; Woman in the Nineteenth Century ; To Eugene Fuller, March 9, 1845 ; Horace Greeley and the New-York Tribune ; To James Nathan, May 4?, 1845 ; "I feel chosen among women" ; To James Nathan, May 23, 1845 ; "An approaching separation, presses on my mind" ; To Evert A. Duyckinck, June 28, 1846 ; "I shall not alter a line or a word" ; To Caroline Sturgis, November 16?, 1846 ; England and Paris ; To Ralph Waldo Emerson, November 16, 1846 ; Meeting Thomas Carlyle ; To Elizabeth Hoar, January 18, 1847 ; "You wished to hear of George Sand" ; To Marcus and Rebecca Spring, April 10, 1847 ; "I wish to be free and absolutely true to my nature" ; To Richard F. Fuller, October 29, 1847 ; "I find myself so happy here alone and free" ; To William Henry Channing, March 29, 1848 ; Revolution ; To Jane Tuckerman King, April 1848 ; "I have done... things that may invoke censure" ; To Costanza Arconati Visconti, May 27, 1848 ; "Everything confirms me in my radicalism" ; To Charles King Newcom, June 22, 1848 ; "Poor one, alone, all alone!" ; To Giovanni Angelo Ossoli, August 22, 1848 ; Waiting to deliver her child ; To Giovanni Angelo Ossoli, September 7, 1848 ; "This dear baby in my arms" ; To Giuseppe Mazzini, March 3, 1849 ; "The best friends, ... must be women" ; To William Henry Channing, March 10, 1849 ; "I am not what I should be on this earth" ; To Caroline Sturgis Tappan, March 16, 1849 ; "No secret can be kept" ; To Giovanni Angelo Ossoli, June 1849 ; "In the event we both die" ; To Ralph Waldo Emerson, June 10, 1849 ; "Rome is being destroyed" ; To Costanza Arconati Visconti, August 1849 ; "I have united my destiny with that of an obscure young man" ; To Caroline Sturgis Tappan, August 28, 1849 ; "On the brink of losing my little boy" ; To Margarett Crane Fuller, August 31, 1849 ; "It was only great love for you that kept me silent" ; To Costanza Arconati Visconti, October 16, 1849 ; "He is to me a source of ineffable joys" ; To Emely Story, c. November 1849 ; "Ossoli is forming some taste for books" ; To Elizabeth Barrett Browning, December 6, 1849 ; Remembering Edgar Allan Poe ; To William Henry Channing, December 17, 1849 ; "This false state of society" ; To Arthur Hugh Clough, February 16, 1850 ; "I like also much living with my husband" ; To Costanza Arconati Visconti, April 6, 1850 ; " I am absurdly fearful about this voyage" ; To Lewis Cass Jr., May 2, 1850 ; "I leave Italy with profound regret"
  • Chronology
  • Note on the texts
  • Notes
  • General index
  • Index of Fuller's poetry titles and first lines.

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