Review: Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book is the story of Margaret Fuller who was a pioneer in the Women's Rights movement. Margaret grew up in the early 1800s in the New England area. She was the daughter of a stern man who was her source of early education. Fuller was a good friend of the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and was heavily involved in the Transcendentalist movement. She went on to be a teacher and a journalist. She was the first woman international correspondent reporting from Italy during a tumultuous time of revolution and the establishment of a Roman Republic. It was in Italy that she met and married Giovanni Ossoli who she secretly married, a very different outcome than what even she expected of her life.

This was a well written and researched book. I thought that it began to drone on a bit in the middle but found her life in Italy to be interesting. Her life ended in a very sad way and I was hopeful for her til the end. I would have like to have seen what she might have become upon coming home to America.

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