Woman in the Nineteenth Century

By Fuller, Margaret

Book Id: WPLBN0002950961
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Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Author:	Fuller, Margaret
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Essay/Short nonfiction, Politics
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Historic Publication Date:	1855
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Fuller, B. M. (1855). Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Her life was short but full. She became the first editor of the transcendentalist journal The Dial in 1840, before joining the staff of the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley in 1844. By the time she was in her 30s, Fuller had earned a reputation as the best-read person in New England, male or female, and became the first woman allowed to use the library at Harvard College. Her seminal work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, was published in 1845. A year later, she was sent to Europe for the Tribune as its first female correspondent. She soon became involved with the revolutions in Italy and allied herself with Giuseppe Mazzini. She had a relationship with Giovanni Ossoli, with whom she had a child. All three members of the family died in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, as they were traveling to the United States in 1850. Fuller's body was never recovered. This project collects her most famous work along with shorter pieces and extracts from her journals and letters. (Summary by Wikipedia and Elizabeth Klett)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Politics, Memoirs