Motley Kamuka

I talk about Fuller, and nobody has ever heard of her. I find that quite shocking. Of course it took me to my 53rd year. Margaret Fuller  (Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli) (1810 – 1850) was a Concord Transcendentalist with Thoreau, Emmerson, Hawthorne and father Alcott and Louisa May Alcott. She wrote a travel book when she traveled around the Great Lakes, and wrote a book on women . She was an editor of a New York newspaper, and the Transcendental organ Dial. She went off to Italy where she was a war correspondent, had a child, and died tragically within sight of the beach off Fire Island, when the lost ship broke upon a sand dune during a hurricane. Thoreau went and searched the beach for her body and found a button. Lost is her book on the war in Rome. Megan Marshall  won the Pulitzer for her biography of Fuller. She has written biographies on the Peabody Sisters and Elizabeth Bishop, the last whom she took classes with. Such a good writer, I want to read her other biographies...

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 , au...