Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

by Megan Marshall

Margaret Fuller—the 19th-century the transcendentalist, war correspondent and feminist thinker—lived a remarkable life. She is the author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), a book is widely accepted to be the first American book on women’s rights, acted as Henry David Thoreau’s first editor, and worked as a foreign correspondent in Italy. In this award-winning work of narrative nonfiction, Megan Marshall combines the atmosphere of a novel with the rigour of archival research.