Description: Before her untimely death in a shipwreck, Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) had distinguished herself as editor (with Emerson) of the Transcendentalist magazine The Dial, author, critic, teacher, translator, and early feminist. Respected by Emerson and praised by Carlyle, she was judged by contemporaries Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as possessing "more influence upon the thought of American women than any women previous to her time." In this important work -- her most influential publication and ow considered a classic of feminist literature -- her views range widely from the Woman Question and such issues as prostitution, employment and marriage reform, to the European revolutionary movements in which she played a direct part. Greeted with tremendous popular success (and vicious attacks from opponents of the embryonic women's movement), when published in 1845, Woman in the Nineteenth Century not only provides and impressive introduction to Fuller's thought, but gives modern readers an opportunity to judge the importance of her achievements for themselves.

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