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Marshall, Megan.
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Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
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Marshall, Megan.
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
MARC Display
Margaret
Fuller
: a new American life / Megan Marshall.
by
Marshall, Megan.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Call #:
921 F967m
Subjects
Fuller
,
Margaret
,
1810-1850
.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780547195605 (hc.)
0547195605 (hc.)
Description:
xxi, 474 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"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.
Awards:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, 2014.
Genre:
Biographies.
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Tantallon Public Library
Adult Biography
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