4 posts tagged Margaret Fuller

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. Author: Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller, transcendentalist, women's rights activist, author of Women in the Nineteenth Century (1845), editor of the transcendentalist journal The Dial from 1840 to 1842, first female foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune. She may have been the first female correspondent for any American newspaper, but I'm not sure about this.

I feel within myself an immense power, but I cannot bring it out. I stand a barren vine-stalk; no grape will swell, though the richest wine is slumbering in its roots. –Margaret Fuller, in Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Margaret Fuller”

Podcast 56: EVERY PAST THING and AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY We talk with author Susan Cheever about AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY and Pamela Thompson tells us about her debut novel, EVERY PAST THING. Today’s show begins in the early nineteenth century and ends in that century’s last year-November, 1899.