Megan Marshall
The award-winning author of ,The Peabody Sisters, takes a fresh look at the trailblazing life of a great American heroineâ€”Thoreauâ€™s first editor, Emersonâ€™s close friend, first female war correspondent, and passionate advocate of personal liberation and political freedom.,From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New Englandâ€™s intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed womenâ€™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 â€œdiscoveredâ€ 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 Greeleyâ€™s offer to be the New York Tribuneâ€™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 Fullerâ€™s 40th birthday, the sense and passion of her lifeâ€™s work were eclipsed by tragedy and scandal. Marshallâ€™s inspired account brings an American heroine back to indelible life.
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Margaret Fuller: A New American Life