Margaret Fuller - A Retrospective
My introduction to Margaret Fuller came to me in a Research Associates publication bought for me by my parents during a visit to Washington D.C. The gift, The Book of Distinguished American Woman , by Vincent Wilson Jr., for the next few weeks became an absolute bible to an aspiring eight year-old scholar like myself, and there was a time I had committed to memory every likeness on every page, and every date in each of the 24 biographies. If through the lens of the present-day scholarship it may now seem off as a dated relic of the 20th-Century scholarship prioritizing a privileged few "eminent women of history," compiled by a white male historian (case in point, only three women of color are included in the volume: Mary Mcleod Bethune, Ida Wells Barnett, and Bessie Smith), it was an invaluable benchmark for my interest in American history and beyond. I would flip through the leadlet pages to the point where the front cover and binding is now ...