The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1848–1849 - Hardcover

Fuller, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801421748 ISBN 13: 9780801421747

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1988

Synopsis

The fifth volume of the collected letters of Margaret Fuller traces a period of great emotional turbulence, reflecting the personal struggles she faced in motherhood and the external strife of revolutionary Europe in 1848. The book opens as she takes up residence in Rome, where she continued to write essays for the New-York Daily Tribune and kept up a steady flow of commentary on the political situation for her family and friends.

Among Fuller's correspondents are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Giovanni Ossoli, William Wetmore Story, Giuseppe Mazzini, Horace Greeley, George William Curtis, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Many of the letters were written in Italian and are translated here for the first time. Since Fuller was more centrally involved in the Italian Risorgimento than any other American, they constitute an entirely new documentary source for historians of nineteenth-century Italy.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert N. Hudspeth is Professor of English at the University of Redlands.

Review:

"The publication of The Letters of Margaret Fuller, scrupulously edited and annotated... is something of a triumph, both as a scholarly service and as an act of restoration. It brings back to the forefront a figure who had belonged there all along."

(The New York Times Book Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0801421748
• ISBN 13: 9780801421747
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Hudspeth Robert N.