About this Item
First edition, stated; first printing, full number line. Signed by the author on the title page: "John Matteson." Matteson won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his first book, "Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father." The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, tail of spine bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $32.95); edgewear at spine ends and corners; a "Signed by the Author" sticker on the front panel; Brodart protected. Seller Inventory # 007317
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography
Publisher: W. W. Norton, New York
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer John Matteson, an account of the "Susan Sontag" of nineteenth-century America.
A brilliant writer and a fiery social critic, Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) was perhaps the most famous American woman of her generation. Outspoken and quick-witted, idealistic and adventurous, she became the leading female figure in the transcendentalist movement, wrote a celebrated column of literary and social commentary for Horace Greeley’s newspaper, and served as the first foreign correspondent for an American newspaper. While living in Europe she fell in love with an Italian nobleman, with whom she became pregnant out of wedlock. In 1848 she joined the fight for Italian independence and, the following year, reported on the struggle while nursing the wounded within range of enemy cannons. Amid all these strivings and achievements, she authored the first great work of American feminism: Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Despite her brilliance, however, Fuller suffered from self-doubt and was plagued by ill health. John Matteson captures Fuller’s longing to become ever better, reflected by the changing lives she led. 28 black-and-white illustrations"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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