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Margaret Fuller, lost Transcendentalist

One of 19th-century America’s greatest female intellectuals is finally getting her due

By Ruth Graham

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  February 05, 2012

Celebrated in her lifetime and immediately after her untimely death in 1850, the Cambridge-born Transcendentalist writer and intellectual Margaret Fuller then fell into obscurity for decades. Now, with a host of new biographies, she is being rediscovered as a key thinker of 19th-century America.

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