Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Margaret Fuller · 1845
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Description
Margaret Fuller published Woman in the Nineteenth Century in 1845 in New York. Fuller, editor of The Dial and a leading figure among the Transcendentalists, expanded an earlier essay for the book. It became the founding text of American feminism in its full book form.
Fuller called for women's self-dependence: the freedom to think, learn, and act without asking leave of fathers or husbands. She surveyed myth, history, and marriage law to show how women had been stunted and what they might become. Her style is dense and allusive, her demand plain. Later suffragists built on her case. The book still reads as a brave, searching plea for women's intellectual equality.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Margaret Fuller |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1845 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 604 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |