Adult Forum - Margaret Fuller, Transatlantic Revolutionary
Aug 23, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Come join us for a 40 minute video on the (short) life of Margaret Fuller.
In the Victorian Age, women could not access higher education. Instead, Fuller schools in the hothouse of her father’s devotion. She absorbs the classics and learns Latin, Greek, French, Italian and German. Already accomplished authors, Fuller and Emerson shape the transcendentalist musings of Thoreau, Ripley and Bronson Alcott. As she enters elite salon life, Fuller delivers sheer genius and critique. Her brash manner evokes admiration and antipathy. The most famous American female of the 19th Century, Fuller endeavors to renegotiate the social contract with men and blazes a path for women’s equality. She guides women, from Boston Brahmins to those imprisoned in Sing Sing, in 19th century literary theory, Greco-Roman mythology, and surviving as singles. Under the tutelage of Horace Greeley in New York, Fuller takes up journalism. Venturing to Europe she is surrounded by artists, poets, and radical theoreticians in London and Paris. Arriving in Rome, she embeds in the Italian Republican Revolution as a correspondent, tilting towards utopianism. Voyaging back to the United States, on the cusp of publishing her greatest work, it all comes to a tragic end.
