ABSTRACT
The fame of Margaret Fuller has waned greatly since her vivid personality was blotted out in the prime of her intellectual development. She was the completest embodiment of the inchoate rebellions and grandiose aspirations of the age of transcendental ferment; for to the many grievances charged against the times by other New England liberals, she added the special grievance of the stupid inhibitions laid upon women. To an extraordinary degree the daughter was the child of the father (Timothy Fuller) in ideas and sympathies as well as blood. Like him she was a rebel, but for the daughter to turn rebel involved greater hazards than for the father. The inchoate rebellions in her heart were stimulated and given form by her reading. From the English, French, and German romantics she drew much of her intellectual food. She was the emotional expression of a rebellious generation that had done with the past and was questioning the future.
