Margaret Fuller : a new American life
Record details
- ISBN: 9780547523620 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0547523629 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxi, 474 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-450) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I. Youth : 1. Three letters ; 2. Ellen Kilshaw ; 3. Theme: "Possunt quia posse videntur" ; 4. Mariana -- Part II. Cambridge : 5. The young lady's friends ; 6. Elective affinities -- Part III. Groton and Providence : 7."My heart has no proper home" ; 8. "Returned into life" ; 9. "Bringing my opinions to the test" -- Part IV. Concord, Boston, Jamaica Plain : 10. "What were we born to do?" ; 11. "The gospel of Transcendentalism" ; 12. Communities and Covenants ; 13. "The newest new world" -- Part V. New York : 14. "I stand in the sunny noon of life" ; 15. "Flying on the paper wings of every day" ; 16. "A human secret, like my own" -- Part VI. Europe : 17. Lost on Ben Lomond ; 18. "Rome has grown up in my soul" ; 19. "A being born wholly of my being" -- Part VII. Homeward : 20. "I have lived in a much more full and true way" ; 21. "No favorable wind." |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 13, 2014). |
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Subject: | Fuller, Margaret 1810-1850 Authors, American 19th century Biography Feminists United States Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women Women |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
Electronic resources
MEGAN MARSHALL is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller, and the author of The Peabody Sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College. For more, visit www.meganmarshallauthor.com.
MEGAN MARSHALL is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller, and the author of The Peabody Sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor and teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College. For more, visit www.meganmarshallauthor.com.