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Margaret Fuller
Overview
American writer and women's activist (1810–1850)
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Did I tell you that we hope shortly to send you some American verses and prose of good intent? My vivacious friend Margaret Fuller is to edit a journal whose first number she promises for the 1st of July next, which I think will be written with a good will if written at all. I saw some poetical fragments which charmed me,--if only the writer consents to give them to the public. I believe I have yet little to tell…
Thomas Carlyle, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
States what Margaret Fuller is; the author is tied to Margaret Fuller in the knowledge graph.
“I accept the universe” is reported to have been a favorite utterance of our New England transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller; and when some one repeated this phrase to Thomas Carlyle, his sardonic comment is said to have been: “Gad! she’d better!” At bottom the whole concern of both morality and religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. Do we accept it only in part and grudgingly, or heartily and…
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
Opens on Margaret Fuller; names Margaret Fuller.
Fourierism was tried in West Virginia by American disciples, and it was advocated by Horace Greeley. A modified form appeared in the famous community at Brook Farm (near Dedham, Massachusetts), which drew there George Ripley, Margaret Fuller, and even George William Curtis and Nathaniel Hawthorne. There have been many smaller communities established in the United States, but it can not be said that they have been…
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
Names Margaret Fuller.
Philosophers who discussed Margaret Fuller
- Feminism
- George Henry Lewes
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Amos Bronson Alcott
- William Henry Channing
Related ideas
- Feminism
- Matthew Arnold
- Florence
- Thomas Carlyle
- George Eliot
- Women's rights
- Reactionary
- Transcendentalism
- The Dial
- Smallpox
- German Romanticism
- Latin
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Harriet Martineau
- New England
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- Charles Fourier
- Boston
- Protestantism
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Satire
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Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.