[Margaret Fuller], review in the New York Daily Tribune

Margaret Fuller (1810–5o), editor, essayist, and critic, was one of the foremost American intellectuals of the day. She edited the Dial (184o–2), the chief organ of Transcendentalist opinion, and had recently published an important work on feminism — Women in the Nineteenth Century. As literary critic of the Daily Tribune(1844–6), she sought to establish fair and principled standards of reviewing. Poe admired her intelligence, but had no sympathy for her radicalism — see Works, 15,73-83.