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Article: Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol. 1. The Public Years.(Book review)
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Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol. 1. The Public Years. By Charles Capper. (New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxi, 649. $40.00.)
Although Margaret Fuller's life was very short, it overflowed with learning, thinking, writing, teaching, travel, and social and political engagement. As a young child, Fuller studied classical languages and literature. She taught herself French and German in order to read the latest European literature and philosophy. In her twenties, she edited the New England transcendentalists' journal, taught in Bronson Alcott's Temple School and at a girls' academy, and led Conversations for the elite women of Boston ...
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