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Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
New York: Greeley & McElrath, W. Osborn Printer, 1845.
First edition, 12mo, with emblematic frontispiece preceding the title depicting the ouroboros surrounding two equilateral triangles laid atop one another to create a six-pointed star silhouette shaded dark and light; bound in contemporary ribbed cloth with remnants of publisher's paper label to spine; foxing and water stains to contents; 7 3/8 x 4 1/2 in.
Fuller was fully ensconced in the transcendentalist movement, and personally acquainted with Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, the Alcott's, and Hawthorne, to name only a few. Hawthorne is said to have modeled the character of Hester Prynne on Fuller's fierceness. This particular work was praised by Thoreau "rich extempore writing, talking with pen in hand," and Poe "unmitigated radicalism." Susan B. Anthony, another enthusiastic supporter, wrote that Fuller "possessed more influence on the thought of American women than any woman previous to her time."
