Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Feminists -- United States -- Biography; Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850
_Margaret Fuller_ will be remembered as one of the "Great Conversers,"
the "Prophet of the Woman Movement" in this country, and her Memoirs
will be read with delight as among the tenderest specimens of
biographical writing in our language. She was never an extremist. She
considered woman neither man's rival nor his foe, but his complement. As
she herself said, she believed that the development of one could not be
affected without that of the other. Her words, so noble in tone, so
moderate in spirit, so eloquent in utterance, should not be forgotten by
her sisters. Horace Greeley, in his introduction to her "Woman in the
Nineteenth Century," says: "She was one of the earliest, as well as
ablest, among American women to demand for her sex equality before the
law with her titular lord and master. Her writings on this subject have
the force that springs from the ripening of profound reflection into
assured conviction. It is due to her memory, as well as to the great and
living cause of which she was so eminent and so fearless an advocate,
that what she thought and said with regard to the position of her sex
and its limitations should be fully and fairly placed before the
public." No woman who wishes to understand the full scope of what is
called the woman's movement should fail to read these pages, and see in
them how one woman proved her right to a position in literature hitherto
occupied by men, by filling it nobly.
The Story of this rich, sad, striving, unsatisfied life, with its depths
of emotion and its surface sparkling and glowing, is told tenderly and
reverently by her biographers. Their praise is eulogy, and their words
often seem extravagant; but they knew her well, they spoke as they felt.
The character that could awaken such interest and love surely is a rare
one.
The above are uniformly bound in cloth, and sold separately or in sets.
Sold everywhere. Mailed, post-paid, by the Publishers,
ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON.
_Messrs. Roberts Brothers' Publications._
* * * * *
FAMOUS WOMEN SERIES.
EMILY BRONTË.
BY A. MARY F. ROBINSON.
One vol. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.
"Miss Robinson has written a fascinating biography.... Emily Brontë is
interesting, not because she wrote 'Wuthering Heights,' but because of
her brave, baffled, human life, so lonely, so full of pain, but with a
great hope shining beyond all the darkness, and a passionate defiance in
bearing more than the burdens that were laid upon her. The story of the
three sisters is infinitely sad, but it is the ennobling sadness that
belongs to large natures cramped and striving for freedom to heroic,
almost desperate, work, with little or no result. The author of this
intensely interesting, sympathetic, and eloquent biography, is a young
lady and a poet, to whom a place is given in a recent anthology of
living English poets, which is supposed to contain only the best poems
of the best writers."--_Boston Daily Advertiser._
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