Fuller’s personality also played a huge part of inspiration for stories and critics, in both the scholarly world and journalistic world. She inspired authors that created award-winning books, like Megan Marshall of The Peabody Sisters. Marshall said,
For a time I believed I must write a biography of Margaret Fuller that turned away from the intrigues in her private life, that spoke of public events solely, and that would affirm her eminence as America’s originating and most consequential theorist of woman’s role in history, culture, and society. (Showalter, 2013, para. 2)
Elaine Showalter, journalist for the New Republic, a journal of opinion founded in 1914, went on to say,
Fuller was indeed the most learned woman in nineteenth-century America, …show more content…
Instead of a life that progressively filled with sorrow, scholars would have only perceived her as someone of power and influence. The instant that her personal letters were released to the public let everyone know who she was as a woman during a time of literary brilliance. The emotional attachment was apparent when the letters were published and these letters were beneficial for scholars to grasp onto who Fuller was outside of journalism. Whether the letters helped Fuller’s credibility is up to scholarly opinion. Yet, if these letters were not released, we would not have as great of a connection to who she was emotionally. There would be a lack of understanding of whom she really was and what she had to overcome. Elaine Showalter said:
Fuller had to create a new American life as a woman, and her courageous efforts to be true to both the private and the public self cannot fail to win our admiration and compassion. Even if Marshall’s life of Fuller is not new in its facts, it is eloquent and welcome. But I think that biographers have done all they can for Margaret Fuller. Now we need a great film-maker to bring her story to millions. Attention Steven Spielberg: Here is the material for another magnificent biopic. It’s long overdue. (Showalter, 2013, para.
For a time I believed I must write a biography of Margaret Fuller that turned away from the intrigues in her private life, that spoke of public events solely, and that would affirm her eminence as America’s originating and most consequential theorist of woman’s role in history, culture, and society. (Showalter, 2013, para. 2)
Elaine Showalter, journalist for the New Republic, a journal of opinion founded in 1914, went on to say,
Fuller was indeed the most learned woman in nineteenth-century America, …show more content…
Instead of a life that progressively filled with sorrow, scholars would have only perceived her as someone of power and influence. The instant that her personal letters were released to the public let everyone know who she was as a woman during a time of literary brilliance. The emotional attachment was apparent when the letters were published and these letters were beneficial for scholars to grasp onto who Fuller was outside of journalism. Whether the letters helped Fuller’s credibility is up to scholarly opinion. Yet, if these letters were not released, we would not have as great of a connection to who she was emotionally. There would be a lack of understanding of whom she really was and what she had to overcome. Elaine Showalter said:
Fuller had to create a new American life as a woman, and her courageous efforts to be true to both the private and the public self cannot fail to win our admiration and compassion. Even if Marshall’s life of Fuller is not new in its facts, it is eloquent and welcome. But I think that biographers have done all they can for Margaret Fuller. Now we need a great film-maker to bring her story to millions. Attention Steven Spielberg: Here is the material for another magnificent biopic. It’s long overdue. (Showalter, 2013, para.