Earlier this year, The New Yorker noted that Margaret Fuller is "having something of a moment." While many people have some idea who the 19th-century author and feminist is, very few have read her work or know her life story. The author of the first major work of feminism in the United States, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, was also a precocious polymath: an editor of the nation’s first avant-garde magazine and the first foreign correspondent for a major American newspaper. She also led a series of conversations that arguably sparked the beginning of the American feminist movement. As Thomas Carlyle put it, “Such a predetermination to eat this big universe as her oyster...and to be absolute empress of all height and glory in it that her heart could conceive, I have not seen before in any human soul.”
Scholar Randall Fuller recounts the remarkable life and work of a brilliant and often-misunderstood woman. He is the Herman Melville distinguished professor of 19th-century American literature at the University of Kansas.
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