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Woman in the Nineteenth Century [Norton Critical Editions]

by Margaret Fuller, Larry J. Reynolds (Editor)

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"Backgrounds" reveals the experiential basis for the text through autobiographical writings and selections from Fuller's recently published letters, journals, and "Boston Conversations." "Criticism and Reviews" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel. The critics include Orestes A. Brownson, A. G. M, Lydia Maria Child, Frederic Dan Huntington, Edgar A. Poe, Charles Lane, George Eliot, Margaret Vanderhaar Allen, David M. Robinson, Bell Gale Chevigny, Julie Ellison, Christina Zwarg, and Jeffery Steele. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.… (more)
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    The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimké: Selected Writings, 1835-1839 by Larry Ceplair (LCBrooks)
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    The First Duty of Women. A Series of Articles Reprinted from the Victoria Magazine. 1865 to 1870. by Mary Taylor (CurrerBell)
    CurrerBell: Contrast Fuller's wordy and confusing stream of purple prose (combining Emersonian Transcendentalism with Graeco-Oriental mysticism) with Taylor's well-crafted arguments (a quarter century later), presented in succinct articles, arguing that women must first and foremost earn money and become financially self-supporting to avoid dependence on men and on family. (Mary Taylor, incidentally, was a lifelong friend from boarding-school years of Charlotte Brontë and the major influence on CB's traveling to Brussels to study French.)… (more)
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DNF at...I dunno, like 20%? I just can’t. Half of it is either Greek mythological stories told in the most boring way, or poetry written in another language. The actual content of her own was dense and difficult to understand. If it wasn’t for a class, I would never have picked this up willingly.... ( )
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"Backgrounds" reveals the experiential basis for the text through autobiographical writings and selections from Fuller's recently published letters, journals, and "Boston Conversations." "Criticism and Reviews" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel. The critics include Orestes A. Brownson, A. G. M, Lydia Maria Child, Frederic Dan Huntington, Edgar A. Poe, Charles Lane, George Eliot, Margaret Vanderhaar Allen, David M. Robinson, Bell Gale Chevigny, Julie Ellison, Christina Zwarg, and Jeffery Steele. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

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