Summary: In the Victorian Age, women could not access higher education. Instead, Fuller schools in the hothouse of her father's devotion. She absorbs the classics and learns Latin, Greek, French, Italian and German. Already accomplished authors, Fuller and Emerson shape the transcendentalist musings of Thoreau, Ripley, and Bronson Alcott. As she enters elite salon life, Fuller delivers sheer genius and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Matteson, John.

Summary: Traces the life of the nineteenth-century feminist who was a leading figure in the transcendentalist movement, a columnist for Horace Greeley's newspaper, and served as the first foreign correspondent for an American newspaper.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, MARGARET MAT

Showalter, Elaine

Summary: "Julia Howe (1819 -1910) was a beautiful, studious New York heiress and aspiring poet when she married Bostonian Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, a hero of the Greek war of independence against the Turks and an internationally acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Their marriage united two exceptional people. Together the Howes knew many of the key figures of their era, from Charles Dickens...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOWE, JULIA WARD SHO