Margaret Fuller - Pioneering Journalist, Feminist and Transcendentalist Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller

The inspirational writing of an exceptional American feminist intellectual Margaret Fuller was a pioneering American journalist, critic, philosopher, and women's rights advocate. She is widely regarded as a prominent intellectual and a foundational figure of American feminism. Born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts in 1810, Fuller was comprehensively educated by her father, Timothy Fuller, until she became fluent in Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian. She was befriended by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Elizabeth Peabody among others and hosted discussions for women to promote intellectual self-reliance. At Emerson's request, she became the first editor of the Transcendentalist journal, 'The Dial', becoming a notable critic which led to an appointment as Literary Critic for the New-York Tribune, and later a front-page columnist tackling social reforms. In 1846, Fuller became the first American female foreign war correspondent, reporting on the Italian revolutions of 1848. Her seminal work and the highly regarded, principal work in this edition was .'Woman in the Nineteenth Century' written in 1845. This was an expansion of her 1843 essay, and is regarded as the first American feminist treatise of note, proposing political, economic, and intellectual equality for women at a time when the concept was widely unconscionable in wider society. Whilst in Italy, Fuller met and subsequently married the Italian revolutionary Giovanni Ossoli. They had a son, Angelo. In 1850, the family sailed for America, but their ship was wrecked close to the shore of Fire Island, New York and the entire family were tragically drowned. This Leonaur edition also includes some of Fullers romantic correspondence. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.