Woman in the Nineteenth Century

And Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman

Margaret Fuller

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9785501818781
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: Social Sciences

The first book-length argument for women's independence written in America: that a woman needs no man's permission to think, that marriage as practised is a trade, and that the question is not what women may do but what they are. Fuller edited "The Dial" with Emerson and was the first woman allowed into the Harvard library; she expanded this from an essay in 1845 and drowned five years later within sight of shore. Her sentences are difficult and her case has not needed revising. Fifty-nine plates by painters including Mary Cassatt and Vilhelm Hammershøi follow women reading, resting and thinking in quiet interiors, a visual counterpart to Fuller's argument for the life of the mind.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Preface
• Introduction
• Preface to Woman in the Nineteenth Century
• The Flying Pigeon
• Reply of Mr. Adams
• Part II. Aglauron and Laurie
• The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women
• George Sand
• From a Notice of George Sand
• To George Sand
• From a Criticism on “Consuelo.”
• Jenny Lind,
• Caroline
• Ever-Growing Lives
• Household Nobleness
• “Glumdalclitches.”
• “Ellen: Or, Forgive and Forget.”
• “Courrier Des Etats Unis.”
• “Courrier Des Etats Unis.”
• On Books of Travel
• Review of “Memoirs and Essays, by Mrs. Jameson.”
• Woman’s Influence Over the Insane
• From a Criticism on Browning’s Poems
• Christmas
• Children’s Books
• Woman in Poverty
• The Irish Character
• The Irish Character
• Educate Men and Women as Souls
• Extract from Journal
• To Her Mother
• Part of Letter to M
• To Her Brother, A. B. F
• To a Young Friend
• Lines Written in March, 1836. To Her Brother, R——
• To a Young Friend
• Sonnet
• Letter to the Same
• To Miss R
• To Her Brother, A. B. F
• To Mazzini
• To Mr. And Mrs. Spring
• To ———
• To Mr. And Mrs. S
• To Mr. Cass, Charge D’affaires Des Etats Unis D’amerique
• To ———
• Letter from Hon. Lewis Cass, Jr., United States Charge D’affaires at Rome, to Mrs. E. K. Channing
• Appendix. A
• B
• Lodi E Preghiere a Maria
• C. D
• Spinoza. Tractatus Politici de Democratia. Caput XI
• Reverence. Description of Angela, from “Festus.”
• E
• F
• G. Euripides. Sophocles
• About the Author