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Fuller, Margaret Sarah (1810-1850) Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
New York: Greeley & McElrath, W. Osborn Printer, 1845.
First edition, 12mo, ex libris Mary C. Shannon (1836-1901) activist and philanthropist of Newton, MA to title page and inside front board; 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 half sheepskin with marbled paper boards, worn, in need of repair; some spotting and foxing to contents, 7 1/2 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."
