Finding Margaret Fuller

I’ve written about Maria Popova’s book, Figuring. Among others, it discusses Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), whom I practically fell in love with. Then, coincidentally, just as I was reading this, one of my book groups took up Allison Pataki’s Finding Margaret Fuller. A novelized but apparently pretty accurate first-person life story.

Fuller was an intellectual dynamo. Pushing the boundaries at a time when women just weren’t taken seriously. (Especially unmarried ones like her.) Fuller changed that, speaking out, in the most eloquent compelling way, for ideas so far ahead of their time they still ...