I had to read some of Margaret Fuller's work after finishing The Lives of Margaret Fuller recently. Since I'm an ardent feminist, I decided to start with Women in the Nineteenth Century.

I'll admit, it's difficult to read. Fuller was highly educated and brings in many references to classical works an

I find it amusing that this was written in the nineteenth century. It is now the twenty-first century and we still have not achieved everything Margaret Fuller wrote about in this essay.
This essay is about Feminism. Feminism is the radical notion that women are people, just like everyone else, and

This work of early feminism is Fuller’s expanded and edited version of her article “The Great Lawsuit” arguing that Women have souls and innate gifts that should receive a full range of growth and expression.

First written as an essay in 1843 (it would be revised and published as a book two years later) it would be easy to assume that little contained in its pages would have any relevance on the world in which we live today. While I would love to confirm those assumptions, sadly, I cannot. Despite all th

Man, this was difficult to get to. I am extremely familiar with Victorian literature and style, yet I found this agonising to read. Still, I found it relevant even today, and found myself nodding along to many passages.