margaret fuller was born and eighteen turn
into a generation that was just after
the revolutionary generation and as she was
part of a group of people that
felt their it should be a second
american revolution and intellectual one in which
the very underpinnings of american life would
be examined and in a away
a rewritten a powerful thinker powerful writer
somebody with great political urgency
a sense of engagement with the world
engagement with what the united states could
be a sense of honesty about it
short comings and also it's potential here
is a woman
who in a sense live with this
tension between culture and politics
and also a woman whose identity was
so much bound up with her as
an intellectual as a thinker that's where
distinguish her that's why she wasn't like
other women other men when people eat
of view margaret fuller and as we've
sort of come to to think of
her in the twentieth century as this
lone female genius the the solitary woman
who was a part of the transcendental
ist group they really miss out on
the fact that she was so interested
in social engagement she was not solitary
that led her to really radical positions
in some ways especially when it came
to the topic of women and their
role in
society their position these are the man
when she got to rome she just
loved it she loved the atmosphere she
loved the dancing the salt a rollover
she loved the art started to to
feel though this stirrings of the the
roman revolution this is where she really
went from being a tourist to being
a resident of
so adjourn or if he will she's
also well connected with italian revolutionaries and
her calm and the tribune goes from
being this travel account to being more
of a political sort of column where
she's publishing translations of sort of decrees
that the revolutionaries reposting for the public
and so forth and she's describing the
scene and especially when
actual hostilities break out she's there as
a war correspondent describing and what's happening
the publication of the memoirs of margaret
for are solely as they were called
actually rocketed her into a kind of
fame
soon after her death i would say
that more than anything else they contributed
to her reputation lasting even though she
was no longer there to attend these
suffrage conventions the women's rights conventions she
couldn't see that her legacy was kept
alive so fuller was trying to set
a national agenda and trying to incite
her people advocating for women's right to
a vocation right to an education interested
in trying to get women to work
cooperatively to help one another giving people
something to hope for encouraging them to
feel as though they were connected to
the rest of the world encouraging them
to be revolutionary in their thinking actions
to work for for
justice for brotherhood for hope and freedom
around the world