Widely regarded as the founding text of the women's rights movement in the United States, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, (1845) influenced many movement leaders, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. This Norton Critical Edition of Margaret Fuller's groundbreaking work is based on the first edition. The text is accompanied by annotations essential for fully appreciating this richly allusive work.
Editor's Preface
The Text of Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Note on the Text
Backgrounds
Margaret Fuller·[Autobiographical Romance]
·[Mariana]
·Leila
·From Letter to Sophia Ripley,
August 27, 1839
·From Boston Conversations:
The 1839-1840 Series
·[From 1842 Journal]
·From Letter to Ralph Waldo
Emerson (October 16, 1842)
Ralph Waldo Emerson·Margaret
Margaret Fuller·[From 1844 Journal]
·Letter to Elizabeth Hoar (October 1844)
·Letter to the Women Inmates at
Sing Sing (early November[?] 1844)
·From Letter to William H. Channing
(November 17, 1844)
Caroline Sturgis·From Letter to Margaret Fuller
(March 4, 1845)
Margaret Fuller·From Letter to Caroline Sturgis
(March 13, 1845)
EARLY REVIEWS
Orestes A. Brownson·Miss Fuller and Reformers
A. G. M. [Anonymous]·The Condition of Woman
Lydia Maria Child·Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Frederic Dan Huntington·[Noble and Stirring
Eloquence]
Edgar A. Poe·The Literati of New York City-- No. IV:
Sarah Margaret Fuller
C[harles]. L[ane].·[A Chaste and Honorable Book]
Anonymous·Stray Leaves from a Seamstress's
Journal--No. 5
George Eliot·Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft
RECENT ESSAYS
Margaret Vanderhaar Allen·[A Classic of Feminist
Literature]
David M. Robinson·Margaret Fuller and the
Transcendental Ethos: Woman in the Nineteenth
Century
Bell Gale Chevigny·To the Edges of Ideology:
Margaret Fuller's Centrifugal Evolution
Julie Ellison·"A Crowd of Books to Sigh Over":
Fuller's Method
Christina Zwarg·Fuller's Scene before the Women:
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Jeffrey Steele·Margaret Fuller's Rhetoric of
Transformation
Margaret Fuller: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography