Writer, editor, journalist, educator, feminist, conversationalist, and reformer Margaret Fuller (1810 1850) was one of the leading intellectuals of nineteenth-century America as well as a prominent member of Concord literary circles. Yet the challenging spirit behind her intellectual confidence and mesmerizing energy led to the invention of an unbalanced legacy that denied her a place among the canonical Concord writers. This collection of first-hand reminiscences by those who knew Fuller personally rescues her from these confusions and provides a clearer identity for this misrepresented...
Writer, editor, journalist, educator, feminist, conversationalist, and reformer Margaret Fuller (1810 1850) was one of the leading intellectuals of ni...
This volume brings together for the first time a range of primary materials about Harriet Beecher Stowe's private and public life written by family members, friends, and fellow writers who knew or were influenced by her before and after "Uncle Tom's Cabin" catapulted her to fame. Included are periodical articles by Fanny Fern and Charles Dudley Warner; biographical essays by Sarah Josepha Hale and Rose Terry Cooke; letters by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Harriet Jacobs; recollections by Frederick Douglass, Annie Adams Fields, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and Charles...
This volume brings together for the first time a range of primary materials about Harriet Beecher Stowe's private and public life written by family me...
Never one to suffer fools gladly, especially if they wore crinolines, Mark Twain lost as many friends as he made, and he targeted them all indiscriminately. The first major American writer born west of the Mississippi River, he enjoys a reputation unrivaled in American literary history, and from the beginning of his career he tried to control that reputation by fiercely protecting his public persona. Not a debunking account of Twain s life but refreshingly immune from his relentless image making, Gary Scharnhorst s "Twain in His Own Time" offers an anecdotal version of Twain s life over...
Never one to suffer fools gladly, especially if they wore crinolines, Mark Twain lost as many friends as he made, and he targeted them all indiscri...
In his time Benjamin Franklin (1706 1790) was the most famous American in the world. Even those personally unacquainted with the man knew him as the author of" Poor Richard s Almanack," as a pioneer in the study of electricity and a major figure in the American Enlightenment, as the creator of such life-changing innovations as the lightning rod and America s first circulating library, and as a leader of the American Revolution. His friends also knew him as a brilliant conversationalist, a great wit, an intellectual filled with curiosity, and most of all a master anecdotist whose vast store...
In his time Benjamin Franklin (1706 1790) was the most famous American in the world. Even those personally unacquainted with the man knew him as th...
In his heyday, Hamlin Garland had a considerable reputation as a radical writer whose realistic stories and polemical essays agitating for a literature that accurately represented American life riled the nation s press. Born in poverty and raised on a series of frontier farms, Garland fled the rural Midwest in 1881 at age twenty-one. When his stories combining the radical economic theories of Henry George with realistic depictions of farm life appeared as "Main-Travelled Roads" in 1891, reviewers praised his method but were disturbed by the bleak subject matter. Four years (and eight books)...
In his heyday, Hamlin Garland had a considerable reputation as a radical writer whose realistic stories and polemical essays agitating for a literatur...
Among nineteenth-century women s rights reformers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 1902) stands out for the maternal and secular advocacy that shaped her activism and public reception. A wife and mother of seven, she was also a prolific writer, transatlantic women s rights leader, popular lecturer, congressional candidate, canny historian, and freethought champion. Her lifelong interest in women s sexual and reproductive rights and late efforts to reform institutional religion are as relevant to our time as they were to her own. Stanton s professional life lasted a half-century, ranging...
Among nineteenth-century women s rights reformers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 1902) stands out for the maternal and secular advocacy that shaped ...