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A New American Life
Houghton Mifflin
March 2013
On Sale: March 12, 2013
496 pages
ISBN: 0547195605
EAN: 9780547195605
Kindle: B008LQ1GGW
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Non-Fiction Biography
From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New Englandβs intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed womenβs 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 βdiscoveredβ 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 Greeleyβs offer to be the New-York Tribuneβs 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 Fullerβs fortieth birthday, the sense and passion of her lifeβs work were eclipsed by tragedy and scandal. Marshallβs inspired account brings an American heroine back to indelible life.
 Media BuzzOn Point - March 14, 2013
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