Transcendent Woman: Margaret Fuller's Art and A. Robinson, Robinson,**

University of Massachusetts Press

Transcendent WomanMargaret Fuller's Art and Achievement\nAuthor(s): David M. Robinson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press, United States\nImprint: University of Massachusetts Press\nISBN-13: 9781625348784, 978-1625348784\nSynopsis\nJournalist, editor, critic, translator, and womens rights advocate, Margaret Fuller was Americas first major female intellectual. Throughout much of the late-19th and 20th centuries, however, critics and scholars largely saw her as a minor figure in the transcendentalist movement with which she is associated, and her work was considered secondary to that of male figures like Emerson and Hawthorne. While her biographyincluding her marriage to an Italian noble and her dramatic death in a shipwreckwas often the focus, her skill as a writer was generally overlooked, and her intellectual development largely ignored.\n\n In the early 1980s, David M. Robinson was one of the first scholars to publish an article that focused on Fullers .