num_pages: 272
description: The third volume of this major series opens with Fuller's decision in early 1842 to resign her post as editor of The Dial , after she realized she would never be paid for her work there. It closes with her in New York, having accepted Horace Greeley's invitation to work as a book reviewer for The Daily Tribune . Her position was nearly without precedent for a woman, and she wrote enthusiastically of her job that it provided "a more various view of life than any I ever before was in." She found herself in a larger the new tasks of daily journalism replaced the demands of The Dial , and a mass audience replaced her coterie of intellectual readers. These were prolific years for Fuller, during which she wrote on a wide variety of subjects, and the letters chronicle her progress on a number of projects, among them her travel book, Summer on the Lakes , in 1843, which grew out of a trip to the Midwest; her translation of Bettina von Arnim's Die Günderode ; and her essays on contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama. She devoted the fall of 1844 to expanding "The Great Lawsuit," an essay she had written for The Dial ; the letters document how the piece grew to become her most important book― Woman in the Nineteenth Century , a provocative study of woman's role in American life.
language: English
title: The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1842–1844
titlecomplete: The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1842–1844
publisher: Cornell University Press