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title	:	Minerva and the Muse : A Life of Margaret Fuller
author	:	Von Mehren, Joan.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870239414
print isbn13	:	9780870239410
ebook isbn13	:	9780585160689
language	:	English
subject	Fuller, Margaret,--1810-1850, Authors, American--19th century--Biography, Feminists--United States--Biography.
publication date	:	1994
lcc	:	PS2506.V66 1994eb
ddc	:	818/.309
subject	:	Fuller, Margaret,--1810-1850, Authors, American--19th century--Biography, Feminists--United States--Biography.

Page i Minerva and the Muse A Life of Margaret Fuller Joan von Mehren University of Massachusetts Press / Amherst

Page ii Copyright 1994 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America L.C. 94-18663 ISBN 0-87023-941-4 Designed by Susan Bishop Set in Adobe Minion by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Von Mehren, Joan, 1923 Minerva and the muse: a life of Margaret Fuller / by Joan von Mehren. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN O-87023-941-4 (alk. paper) 1. Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850Biography. 2. Women authors, American19th centuryBiography. 3. FeministsUnited StatesBiography. I. Title. PS2506.v66 1995 818'.309dc20 94-18663 [B] British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.

Page iii For my Mother and for Arthur

Page v Contents Acknowledgements vii Introduction. Margaret Fuller: Should She Be Famous? 1 1. The Protected Years 6 2. A Varied Education 24 3. An Unfavorable Turn 38 4. Vain World Begone 54 5. A Trial to Fortitude 72 6. Schoolkeeping in Providence 90 7. Episodes in the Crusade 104 8. The Dial: Discontent and Freedom 120 9. A Sojourner on Earth 137 10. Marriage Studies 152 11. "The Great Lawsuit" 162 12. Summer on the Lakes 172 13. Woman in the Nineteenth Century 189 14. Mary and Horace Greeley 200 15. James Nathan 208 16. New York, 1845-1846 216 17. England and Scotland 230 18. France 241 19. Italy at Last 252 20. Return to Rome 264 21. 1848: On Her Own 276 22. The Roman Republic 289 23. Siege and Escape 303 24. Florence 318 25. Return 333 26. Aftermath and Debate 340 Notes 353 Index 387 Illustrations follow page - 182

Page vii Acknowledgments Since the vast majority of Fuller source materials is at Houghton Library at Harvard and the Boston Public Library, I owe special thanks to Rodney G. Dennis and Leslie Morris, Curators of Manuscripts at Houghton, Laura Monti, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Boston Public Library, and their staffs for their help and guidance. I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the following: Catherine Craven and Virginia Smith of the Massachusetts Historical Society; Carl A. Starce of the Long Island Historical Society; Wendy Wick Reaves, Curator of Prints, National Museum of American Art; Sandor B. Cohen of the New Jersey Historical Society; William Loos, Curator of the Rare Book Room, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library; Elizabeth Shenton of the Schlesinger Library; Mary Smith of Widener Library; the late Dr. Lola L. Szladitz, Curator of the H. W. and A. A. Berg Collection at the New York Public Library; Jacques Suffel, Director of the Archives Lovenjoul, Chantilly, France; Dr. John Treherne of Downing College, Cambridge; Professor Kurt Lipstein and Dr. Richard Gooder of Clare College, Cambridge; Gesine Bottomley of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin; and the staffs of the Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento in Rome, the Bibliothque Nationale, the Bibliothque Arsenal, and the Muse Adam Mickiewicz in Paris, the Adam Mickiewicz Museum and Library in Warsaw, the British Museum in London, the Library of Cambridge University, Fruitlands Library and Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, and the Athenaeum Library of Boston.

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