Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, The Private Years

Margaret Fuller is recognized as one of the key social and literary figures in nineteenth century America - as prominent a woman in intellectual circles as there was in her time. This book is the first of a two-volume biography, and deals with her childhood and education, her time as a schoolteacher and her involvement with the Transcendentalists, particularly the story of her close and difficult relationship with the movement's leader, Ralph Waldo Emerson. It ends in 1840, when her public career began.