(The portrait on the left is at the Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts and appears on the cover of Wilson's book listed below.)

| Top | Primary Works

"The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women," (Dial essay) 1843; Summer on the Lakes, 1843, 1844; Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845; Papers on Literature and Art, 1846; At Home and Abroad, ed. Arthur B. Fuller, 1856; The Letters of Margaret Fuller, ed. Robert N. Hudspeth, 4 vols., 1983- .

| Top | Achievement

Margaret Fuller worked as a schoolteacher, as an editor, held "conversations," was active in social reform, and went to Europe as a foreign correspondent. As a writer, she is admired as a literary critic and for her sympathies for the plight of the Indians. She has written on such themes as transcendentalism, women's rights, critical theory, gender roles, and political reform in Europe.

| Top | Selected Bibliography

Allen, Margaret V. The Achievement of Margaret Fuller. U Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1979. PS2507 .A4

Anthony, Katherine S. Margaret Fuller: A Psychological Biography. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. PS2506 .A8

Baker, Anne. "'A Commanding View': Vision and the Problem of Nationality in Fuller's Summer on the Lakes." ESQ 44.1-2 (1998): 61-79.

Barr, Eileen S. "Margaret Fuller D'Ossoli." Western Humanities Review 6 (1952): 37-52.

Bean, Judith M. "'A Presence among Us': Fuller's Place in Nineteenth-Century Oral Culture." ESQ 44.1-2 (1998): 79-.

Blanchard, Paula. Margaret Fuller: From Transcendentalism To Revolution. NY: Delacorte P, 1978. PS2506 .B57

Brown, Arthur W. Margaret Fuller. NY: Twayne Publishers, 1964. PS2506 .B77

Capper, Charles. "Margaret Fuller as Cultural Reformer: The Conversations in Boston." American Q. 39 4 (1987): 509-28.

---. Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Volume 1: The Private Years. NY: Oxford UP, 1992.

| Top | Chevigny, Bell Gale, ed. The Woman and the Myth : Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist P, 1976. PS2502 .C5

---. "The Edges of Ideology: Margaret Fuller's Centrifugal Evolution." American Q. 38.2 (Summer 1986): 173-201.

---. "Daughters Writing: Toward a Theory of Women's Biography." Feminist Studies 9.1 (Spring 1983): 79-102.

Chipperfield, Faith. In Quest of Love; the Life and Death of Margaret Fuller. NY: Coward-Mccann, 1957. PS2506 .C5

Cole, Phyllis. "The Nineteenth-Century Women's Rights Movement and the Canonization of Margaret Fuller." ESQ 44.1-2 (1998): 1-35.

Cross, Barbara M., ed. The Educated Woman in America; Selected Writings of Catharine [sic] Beecher, Margaret Fuller, and M. Carey Thomas. NY: Teachers College P, 1965. HQ1412 .C7

Daniel, Clay. "The Scarlet Letter: Hawthorne, Freud and the Transcendentalists." American Transcendental Q. 61 (Oct. 1986): 23-36.

Deiss, Joseph J. The Roman Years of Margaret Fuller; A Biography. NY: Crowell, 1969. PS2506 .D39

Delano, Sterling F. "The Harbinger Reviews Its Transcendental `Friends': Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, and Ralph Waldo Emerson." Colby Library Q. 17.2 (June 1981): 74-84.

Ellison, Julie K. Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, and the Ethics of Understanding. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990. PR457 .E5

Fleischmann, Fritz. ed. Margaret Fuller's Cultural Critique: Her Age and Legacy. Peter Lang, 2000.

| Top | Frank, Albert J. von. "Life as Art in America: The Case of Margaret Fuller." Studies in American Renaissance (1981): 1-26.

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970. PS2504 .L5

Fuller, Arthur B., ed. Margaret Fuller: At Home and Abroad; or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat P, 1971. PS2506 .A62

George, Sharon. "Margaret Fuller's Dial Criticism: The Merging of the Scottish Common Sense and Romantic Traditions." American Transcendental Q. 62 (Dec. 1986): 17-28.

Gustafson, Sandra M. "Choosing a Medium: Margaret Fuller and the Forms of Sentiment." American Quarterly 47.1 (Mar 1995): 34.

Haronian, Mary-Jo. "Margaret Fuller's Visions." ESQ 44.1-2 (1998): 35-61.

Hlus, Carolyn. "Margaret Fuller, Transcendentalist: A Re-Assessment." Canadian Review of American Studies 16.1 (Spring 1985): 1-13.

Hudspeth, Robert N., ed. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Ithica: Cornell UP, 1983. PS2506 .A4

Kolodny, Annette. "Inventing a Feminist Discourse: Rhetoric and Resistance in Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century." New Literary History 25.2 (Spr 1994): 355.

Kopacz, Paula. "Feminist at the Tribune: Margaret Fuller as Professional Writer." Studies in American Renaissance (1991): 119-39.

Kornfeld, Eve. Margaret Fuller: A Brief Biography with Documents. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.

Kornfield, Eve, and Melissa Marks. "Margaret Fuller: Minerva and the Muse." Journal of American Culture 13.3 (Fall 1990): 47-59.

Miller, Perry, ed. Margaret Fuller, American Romantic. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1969. PS2502 .M5

| Top | Myerson, Joel, ed. Critical Essays on Margaret Fuller. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980. PS2507 .C7

---. "Supplement to Margaret Fuller: An Annotated Secondary Biography." Studies in the American Renaissance (1984):331-385.

Robinson, David M. "Margaret Fuller and the Transcendental Ethos: Woman in the Nineteenth Century." PMLA 97.1 (Jan. 1982): 83-98.

Scheick, William J. "The Angelic Artistry of Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century," Essays in Literature 11.2 (Fall 1984): 293-298.

Smith, Stephanie A. "Engendering a Body of Truth: Fuller, Emerson and an Embryonic American Literature." Conceived By Liberty: Maternal Figures and 19th-Century American Literature. Cornell, 1995.

Smith, Susan B. "`The Liberal Air of All the Zones': Another View of the Emerson-Fuller Relationship." CCTES (Conference of College Teachers of English Studies) 52 (1987): 28-35.

Stern, Madeline B. `Margaret Fuller and the Phrenologist-Publishers." Studies in American Renaissance (1980); 229-237.

Stowe, William W. "Conventions and Voices in Margaret Fuller's Travel Writing." American Literature 63.2 (June 1991): 242-62.

Strauch, Carl F. "Hatred's Swift Repulsions: Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Others." Studies in Romanticism 7 (1968): 65-103.

Thompson, Julie M. "Incarcerated Souls: Women as Individuals in Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century." Communication Quarterly 43.1 (Win 1995): 53.

Wade, Mason, ed. The Writings of Margaret Fuller. NY: Viking, 1941. PS2501 .W3

---. Margaret Fuller, Whetstone of Genius. NY: The Viking P, 1940. PS2506 .W3

Watson, David. Margaret Fuller: an American romantic. NY: St. Martin's P, 1988. PS2506 .W37

| Top | Wilson, Ellen. Margaret Fuller: Bluestocking, Romantic, Revolutionary. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. 0-374-34807-3

Wood, Mary E. "`With Ready Eye': Margaret Fuller and Lesbianism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature." American Literature 65.1 (Mar 1993): 1(18).

Young, Virginia H. "Fuller and Hawthorne: The Androgyny of Genius." Pub. of the Missouri Philological Association 10 (1985): 64-70.

Zwarg, Christina. "Emerson as `Mythologist' in The Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli." Criticism 31.3 (Summer 1989): 213-233.

---. "Footnoting the Sublime: Margaret Fuller on Black Hawk's Trail." American Literary History 5.4 (Win 1993): 616.

---. "Womanizing Margaret Fuller: Theorizing a Lover's Discourse." Cultural Critique 16 (Fall 1990): 161-192.

Study Questions

1. Compare "Self-Reliance" or Walden to Woman in the Nineteenth Century as regards the responsibilities of the individual within a conformist society.

2. Discuss whether Zenobia in Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance is a portrayal of Fuller, as some critics suggest.

3. Compare or contrast Fuller's ideas on critical theory to Poe's.

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