{"product_id":"margaret-fuller-collected-writings-loa-388-9781598538038","title":"Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings (Loa #388)","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Humanity can be divided into three classes: men, women, and Margaret Fuller.\"--Edgar Allan Poe \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA true American original--radical transcendentalist, intrepid journalist, and pioneering feminist--joins Library of America with the most authoritative single-volume collection of her writings ever, including many rare and previously unpublished works, newly transcribed from original notebooks and journals \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranscendentalist, journalist, feminist, activist, public intellectual, war correspondent, poet: Margaret Fuller's achievement in her short life was as diverse, wide-ranging, and radical as her multi-generic writings. Now, at long last, this pioneering writer joins Library of America with the most comprehensive and most authoritative version of her writings ever published. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere are her two best-known books: \u003ci\u003eSummer on the Lakes, in 1843\u003c\/i\u003e, an account of her travels to the Great Lakes, a plea for better treatment of the American Indian peoples, and a sketchbook of Fuller's thought; and \u003ci\u003eWoman in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, the foundational document of American feminism and the first major work on women's rights since Wollstonecraft's \u003ci\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman \u003c\/i\u003efifty-three years earlier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoining them are a generous selection of Fuller's published essays and journalism, including \"American Literature\" and her reviews and columns for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as her war correspondence from besieged Rome in 1849; unpublished writings and selections from Fuller's journals, many previously unknown and newly transcribed for this volume; and a selection of Fuller's letters, including three newly translated from the original Italian. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRounding out the volume are a chronology by Fuller's biographer Megan Marshall, along with helpful notes identifying Fuller's many allusions and quotations, and an index.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Fuller\u003c\/b\u003e (1810-1850) was a woman of action as well as ideas. Her life is itself a great American story, from precocious influence on Emerson and Thoreau and the rest of the New England Tracendentalists, to her years as a front-page newspaper columnist in New York, to her passionate engagement as a war correspondent and hospital superintendant in Italy. Her far-sighted writing--two books, numerous essays, poems and short fiction, and a vibrant archive of unpublished journals and letters--speaks to readers today with exceptional insight and relevance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrigitte Bailey\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824-1862 \u003c\/i\u003e(2018), co-editor of \u003ci\u003eTransatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain \u003c\/i\u003e(2012) and \u003ci\u003eMargaret Fuller and Her Circles \u003c\/i\u003e(2013), and former president of the Margaret Fuller Society. \u003cb\u003eDr. Noelle A. Baker, \u003c\/b\u003e an independent scholar, is editor of \u003ci\u003eStanton in Her Own Time \u003c\/i\u003e(2016) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition \u003c\/i\u003e(ongoing). She is editor in chief of the open-access, peer-reviewed journal \u003ci\u003eScholarly Editing \u003c\/i\u003eand has served on the advisory board of the Margaret Fuller Transnational Archive and as an officer of the Margaret Fuller Society. \u003cb\u003eMegan Marshall \u003c\/b\u003eis the Charles Wesley Emerson Professor at Emerson College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMargaret Fuller: A New American Life\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography; \u003ci\u003eThe Peabody Sisters \u003c\/i\u003e(2005) winner of the Francis Parkman Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and \u003ci\u003eAfter Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart \u003c\/i\u003e(2025). She is a past president of the Society of American Historians and has served on the board of the Margaret Fuller Society.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186191892754,"sku":"9781598538038","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_682a330f-3765-4c37-aebb-941203d76b19.jpg?v=1744615547","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/margaret-fuller-collected-writings-loa-388-9781598538038","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}