REVIEW | ‘The Lives of Margaret Fuller’ Book review | Biography of Margaret Fuller transcends time The complicated life of America’s first female literary critic comes into sharp focus. By JOANNA SCUTTS The Washington Post By JOANNA SCUTTS Updated: 2012-

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The Lives of Margaret Fuller A Biography John Matteson W.W. Norton: 510 pp. , $32.95 Margaret Fuller didn't need to wear a meat dress to attract attention. This socially awkward New Englander, this unabashed questioner and critic, this woman of not just h

In “ The Lives of Margaret Fuller ,” the follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Bronson and Louisa May Alcott , John Matteson returns to the idealistic, intellectual, impractical world of Concord, Mass. , in the 1830s. Yet although Margaret

In her review of John Matteson's “The Lives of Margaret Fuller,” Laura Skandera Trombley poses an interesting question: “What must it have been like always to be the smartest person in the room without any of the privileges accorded to men?” That's what

To the Editor: Mary Beth Norton begins her review of John Matteson’s biography “The Lives of Margaret Fuller” (Jan. 22) by presenting the Massachusetts of 1810 as a place where a single, rigid view of woman’s potential prevailed. On the contrary, in the