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Margaret Fuller : a new American life / Megan Marshall.

by Marshall, Megan.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850.

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.

Feminists -- United States -- Biography.

9780547195605 (hc.)

0547195605 (hc.)

xxi, 474 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The author tells the story of how Fuller, tired of Boston, accepted Horace Greeley's offer to be the New-York Tribune's front-page columnist. The move unleashed a crusading concern for the urban poor and the plight of prostitutes, and a late-in-life hunger for passionate experience. In Italy as a foreign correspondent, Fuller took a secret lover, a young officer in the Roman Guard; she wrote dispatches on the brutal 1849 Siege of Rome; and she gave birth to a son. Yet, when all three died in a shipwreck off Fire Island shortly after Fuller's fortieth birthday, the sense and passion of her life's work were eclipsed by tragedy and scandal. Marshall's inspired account brings an American heroine back to indelible life."--Jacket.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, 2014.

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