{"product_id":"sparks-fly-up-the-lost-story-of-margaret-fuller-9781632261687","title":"Sparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"How can you describe a force?\" Margaret Fuller's friend Sam Ward asked after the pioneering feminist died in 1850 at age forty. Called by Henry James a \"ghost\" haunting American transcendentalism, Fuller comes to life in this historical novel--not as a pale specter but a passionate firebrand. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller\u003c\/i\u003e is a character- and plot-driven story of a brilliant woman who manages to infuriate and inspire peers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFuller wrote the first American book on women's rights and was the first female newspaper columnist and war correspondent. She shocked New England conservatives with her revolutionary zeal, affair with a young Italian soldier, and \"illegitimate\" child. On the cusp of returning to the States from Italy, she died in a shipwreck. Lost with Fuller was her manuscript on the Italian struggle for freedom (the \u003ci\u003eRisorgimento\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniting in Concord, Massachusetts, her friends squabble over how to memorialize her life. In this transformative, meticulously researched--and sure to be much discussed--view, some are proud of her ambition and others scandalized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrong female allies fight to preserve Fuller's legacy. A charming cad is not a fan. Thoreau must choose sides. Whitman is an aspiring poet disguised as a hack reporter, and Melville finds Fuller's story rousing. All are galvanized in a tour-de-force, cinematically thrilling, final scene. \"If you have knowledge,\" Fuller wrote, \"let others light their candles in it.\" \u003ci\u003eSparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller\u003c\/i\u003e shows how her light emboldens and radiates--then and now. As the characters wrestle with the question of \"me\" versus \"we,\" their ethical dilemmas are evergreen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrickland, Carol:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eCarol Strickland earned a Ph.D. in American literature from the University of Michigan. She has taught writing and literature at various universities but never included Margaret Fuller's work in course syllabi. Her novel, \u003ci\u003eSparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller \u003c\/i\u003eis an attempt to compensate for omitting a giant of American intellectual history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrickland has contributed features to newspapers including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChristian Science\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMonitor \u003c\/i\u003eand to magazines including \u003ci\u003eArt in America, Art and Antiques\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMomus.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer introduction to art history, \u003ci\u003eThe Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present, \u003c\/i\u003e has sold more than 400,000 copies in three editions since 1992. \u003ci\u003eThe Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History of Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e is often used in college courses. Other books include \u003ci\u003eThe Illustrated Timeline of Art History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrickland's first historical novel \u003ci\u003eThe Eagle and the Swan\u003c\/i\u003e is set in the late Roman Empire of sixth-century Constantinople. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"All Night Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160327647506,"sku":"9781632261687","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ccc7f050-30ec-4424-a17a-b9691ed8d08a.jpg?v=1775053228","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sparks-fly-up-the-lost-story-of-margaret-fuller-9781632261687","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}