6 February 2025: When I wasn't conferencing with students today, I was proofing my book. Found myself moved all over again by this passage from Margaret Fuller's letters: “When I write it is into another world, not a better one, perhaps, but one with very dissimilar habits of thought to this where I am domesticated” (Letters 125). Fuller, I explain, wrote towards and for the world she imagined. It's inspiring.
It is a profound experience to re-read these pages in these dark and troubled day, not because of my writing (ha!), but because so many of these women continue to inspire me as they wrote and wrote and wrote through their own troubled times.
Work Cited
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, Cornell UP, 1983.
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