num_pages: 474
description: The award-winning author of The Peabody Sisters takes a fresh look at the trailblazing life of a great American heroineThoreaus first editor Emersons close friend first female war correspondent and passionate advocate of personal liberation and political freedom.From an early age Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New Englands intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed womens sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Transcendentalist literary journal The Dial shaped American Romanticism. Now Megan Marshall whose acclaimed The Peabody Sisters discovered three fascinating women has done it again: no biography of Fuller has made her ideas so alive or her life so moving.Marshall tells the story of how Fuller tired of Boston accepted Horace Greeleys offer to be the New York Tribunes front-page columnist. The move unleashed a crusading concern for the urban poor and the plight of prostitutes and a late-in-life hunger for passionate experience. In Italy as a foreign correspondent Fuller took a secret lover a young officer in the Roman Guard; she wrote dispatches on the brutal 1849 Siege of Rome; and she gave birth to a son.Yet when all three died in a shipwreck off Fire Island shortly after Fullers 40th birthday the sense and passion of her lifes work were eclipsed by tragedy and scandal. Marshalls inspired account brings an American heroine back to indelible life.
language: English
title: Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt