THE LIVES OF MARGARET FULLER: A Biography.
by [Fuller, Margaret 1810-1850] Matteson, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393068056
- ISBN 13
- 9780393068054
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New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (2012). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book which captures the complexity of this early American feminist writer. Fuller "outspoken and quick-witted, idealistic and adventurous, became the leading female figure in the transcendentalist movement, wrote a column of literary and social commentary for Horace Greeleys newspaper, and served as the first foreign correspondent for an American newspaper. While living in Europe she fell in love with an Italian nobleman, with whom she became pregnant out of wedlock. In 1848 she joined the fight for Italian independence and, the following year, reported on the struggle while nursing the wounded." She is the author or the first work of American feminism by a woman: "Woman in the Nineteenth Century." Illustrated, notes, sources, index. xvi, 510 pp.
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- Title
- THE LIVES OF MARGARET FULLER: A Biography.
- Author
- [Fuller, Margaret 1810-1850] Matteson, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393068056
- ISBN 13
- 9780393068054
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2012)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women's Studies;
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