Sparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller : A Novel

Name: Sparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller : A Novel
Brand: Easton Studio Press

Easton Studio Press

Sparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret FullerA Novel\nAuthor(s): Carol Strickland\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Easton Studio Press, United States\nImprint: Easton Studio Press\nISBN-13: 9781632261687, 978-1632261687\nSynopsis\nHow can you describe a force? Margaret Fullers friend Sam Ward asked after the pioneering feminist died in 1850 at age forty. Called by Henry James a ghost haunting American transcendentalism, Fuller comes to life in this historical novelnot as a pale specter but a passionate firebrand.\n\nSparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller is a character- and plot-driven story of a brilliant woman who manages to infuriate and inspire peers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville.\n\nFuller wrote the first American book on womens rights and was the first female newspaper columnist and war correspondent. She shocked New England conservatives with her revolutionary zeal, affair with a young Italian s.