Title: Hawthorne's Fuller mystery
First published: 1998
Description: This book explores the deeply emotional yet enigmatic relationship between two nineteenth-century American writers, showing how Margaret Fuller's radical ideas about women's rights, equality of the sexes, and the nature of marriage influenced Nathaniel Hawthorne's writing.

Drawing on recently published letters and journals, Thomas R. Mitchell describes how Julian Hawthorne's misrepresentation of his father's relationship with Fuller destroyed her literary reputation, promoted Hawthorne as a defender of conservative values, and continues to obscure the depth of Hawthorne's personal and intellectual involvement with her.

Mitchell concludes that far from being repulsed by Fuller and her assertiveness - as many scholars have claimed - Hawthorne experienced with her perhaps the most intimate relationship that he ever had with a woman, his wife alone excepted.
Subjects: Friends and associates, History, Transcendentalism in literature, Feminism and literature, Women and literature, Influence, Transcendentalism (New England), Hawthorne, nathaniel, 1804-1864, Political and social views, Pensée politique et sociale, Amis et relations, Féminisme et littérature, Histoire, Femmes et littérature, Transcendantalisme dans la littérature, Transcendantalisme (Philosophie américaine), LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Friendship, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), American Literature, English, Languages & Literatures
Places: United States
People: Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PS1892.F45 M57 1998