When I used the Librivox app, which seems to be titled Audio Books and Novels, but was called Free Audio Books when I first downloaded it, I could only find Fuller's Summer On The Lakes. But somehow her Woman in the Nineteenth Century is on the website, but not the app.
The language is so foreign that I find listening to the book, it just ploughs along, and I don't get caught up or quit.
She was accompanied on the trip by Caroline Sturgis Tappan, though she wouldn't marry William Tappan until 1847. Caroline Sturgis attended Bronson Alcott's Temple School, Dorothy Dix's school for girls, and became Margaret Fuller's private student, and she participated in Fuller's Conversations series with her sister Ellen Sturgis Hooper. She published poems in Dial and wrote 2 childrens books.
She researched the book in the Harvard Library and she is considered the first woman to be allowed into the library. The book was completed in 1844. Scholar Dorothy Z. Baker, author of In Her Own Voice: Nineteenth-century American Women Essayists, noted that the book has been variously defined as "Transcendental travelogue, a sketchbook, and a social and political tract".
At this point she's talking about the Rock River. The river was known as the Sinnissippi to Sauk and Fox Indians; the name means "rocky waters". It flows out of the Horicon Marsh, the silted-up glacial lake is the largest freshwater cattail marsh in the United States. She can imagine people who aren't middle class, and scrambling for existence, sort of ruining the places she visits.
I've ordered her biography from the library. I may read her words with my eyes, instead of listen.
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