Presents the life and works of American transcendental radical Margaret Fuller. Includes a chronology.

The leading feminist intellectual of her day, Margaret Fuller has been remembered for her groundbreaking work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, which recharted the gender roles of nineteenth-century men and women. In this new collection, the full range of her literary career is represented--from her earliest poetry to her final dispatch from revolutionary Italy. For the first time, the complete texts of Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Summer on the Lakes are printed together along with generous selections from Fuller's Dial essays, New York essays, Italian dispatches, and unpublished journals. Special features are the complete text of Fuller's famous "Autobiographical Romance" (never before reprinted in its entirety) and nineteen of her poems, edited from her manuscripts. All of Fuller's major texts are completely annotated, with special attention to her literary and historical sources, as well as her knowledge of American Indian culture, mythology, and the Bible. Jeffrey Steele's

In the Victorian Age, women could not access higher education. Instead, Fuller schools in the hothouse of her father's devotion. She absorbs the classics and learns Latin, Greek, French, Italian and German. Already accomplished authors, Fuller and Emerson shape the transcendentalist musings of Thoreau, Ripley, and Bronson Alcott. As she enters elite salon life, Fuller delivers sheer genius and critique. Her brash manner evokes admiration and antipathy. The most famous American female of the 19th Century, Fuller endeavors to renegotiate the social contract with men and blazes a path for women's equality. She guides women, from Boston Brahmins to those imprisoned in Sing Sing, in 19th-century literary theory, Greco-Roman mythology, and surviving as singles. Under the tutelage of Horace Greeley in New York, Fuller takes up journalism. Venturing to Europe she is surrounded by artists, poets, and radical theoreticians in London and Paris. Arriving in Rome, she embeds in the Italian Republic