My Most Loved: Love Letters of Margaret Fuller (Expanded, Annotated)

Discover the secret heart of one of America’s most brilliant women. In these intimate letters, Margaret Fuller—Transcendentalist, critic, and revolutionary thinker—lays aside public controversy and writes with unguarded tenderness to the man she loved most.

Written in the 1840s, Fuller’s private words glow with all the contradictions of real love: fierce longing and playful teasing, insecurity and exultation, spiritual yearning and sensual delight. Here is the Fuller Emerson admired and the world rarely sees—vulnerable, passionate, and determined to love with her whole being.

Perfect for readers who cherish classic love letters, women’s history, and the Transcendentalist circle, this curated edition presents Fuller’s most revealing correspondence, carefully arranged and introduced for the modern reader. You’ll hear her voice as she felt it—unrevised, immediate, and achingly alive.

Inside you’ll find:

• Margaret Fuller’s most moving love letters, many difficult to find elsewhere
• Glimpses of her relationships with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, Horace Greeley, and other friends who understood her uncommon spirit
• A portrait of nineteenth‑century love that feels startlingly contemporary in its honesty

If you love the letters of John and Abigail Adams, the Brontës, or the Brownings, My Most Loved will become a favorite companion—an unforgettable record of a great mind in love.