This volume collects Margaret Fuller's essays and kindred papers on the sphere, condition, and duties of woman in the nineteenth century. Edited by her brother Arthur B. Fuller, with an introduction by Horace Greeley, it includes the title essay and previously unpublished writings. It offers a historical view of early American arguments for women's emancipation and is valuable as a record of nineteenth-century thought.
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Margaret Fuller
Woman in the Nineteenth Century,
and
Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller Ossoli.
Edited by her brother, Arthur B. Fuller.
With an introduction by Horace Greeley.
PREFACE.
It has been thought desirable that such papers of Margaret
Fuller Ossoli as pertained to the condition, sphere and duties of Woman, should be collected and published together. The present volume contains, not only her "Woman in the
Nineteenth Century,"—which has been before published, but for some years out of print, and inaccessible to readers who have sought it,—but also several other papers, which have appeared at various times in the Tribune and elsewhere, and yet more which have never till now been published.
My free access to her private manuscripts has given to me many papers, relating to Woman, never intended for publication, which yet seem needful to this volume, in order to present a complete and harmonious view of her thoughts on this important theme. I have preferred to publish them without alteration, as most just to her views and to the reader; though, doubtless, she would have varied their expression and form before giving them to the press.
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