Houghton Mifflin
March 2013
On Sale: March 12, 2013
496 pages ISBN: 0547195605 EAN: 9780547195605 Kindle: B008LQ1GGW Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New
England’s intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations
changed women’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 “discovered” 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 Greeley’s offer to be the
New-York Tribune’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 Fuller’s fortieth birthday, the sense and passion of
her life’s work were eclipsed by tragedy and scandal.
Marshall’s inspired account brings an American heroine back
to indelible life.
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