Natural/Environmental_Antebellum/Slavery: Margaret Fuller
In the early and mid 1800s, American society in the Northeast was
becoming increasingly “modern.” Factories started emerging throughout
the Northeast. Industry became a major source for jobs. Cities grew
bigger and bigger. New inventions like the steam engine and railroad led
people to travel easier. Life in general seemed to be moving away from its
traditional style, of small farms and country living, to the newer city-based
model.
In this era of rapid social and economic change, a group of writers, artists,
and activists sought to remember and live the earlier lifestyle. They
believed it was important to live simply, close to nature, and without all the
hassle and stress that the new factory-based city life brought with it.
One of these people was Margaret Fuller. Margaret Fuller was a writer and
activist who strongly believed in living close to nature. She worked with
fellow writer Ralph Waldo Emerson on a newspaper dedicated to the
subject of nature, called The Dial. She was also one of the first women’s
rights activists and wrote extensively on the subject.
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American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the
Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
Margaret Fuller.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
[between 1840 and 1880]
SUMMARY
Margaret Fuller, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left.
NOTES
Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of
women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ...
[et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 47.
SUBJECTS
Fuller, Margaret,--1810-1850.
Portrait prints--1840-1880.
Engravings--1840-1880.
MEDIUM
1 print : engraving.
CALL NUMBER
BIOG FILE - Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 (Marchioness Ossoli) [item]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USZ62-47039 DLC (b&w film copy neg.)
SPECIAL TERMS OF USE
No known restrictions on publication.
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540
USA
DIGITAL ID
( b&w film copy neg. ) cph 3a47196 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a47196
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/ampage?collId=lhbum&fileName=01714//lhbum01714.db&recNum=12
This is a page from one of Margaret Fuller’s writings on nature, Summer on
the Lakes. In the text Fuller portrays an idealized view of nature, which she
lauds as being an edenic bastion of purity. She talks of the “buildings”
around Niagara Falls, and though others had castigated their presence,
Fuller believes that the strength of nature’s beauty is enough to “swallow
up all such objects.” Her glowing praise of nature is characteristic of the
other transcendentalists of the time.
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Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin,
ca. 1820-1910
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. By S.M. Fuller.
Ossoli, Sarah Margaret Fuller, marchesa d', 1810-1850.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
Boston, C. C. Little and J. Brown; New York, C. S. Francis and company, 1844.
SUMMARY
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), better known as Margaret Fuller, was
a writer, editor, translator, early feminist thinker, critic, and social reformer who
was associated with the Transcendentalist movement in New England. This is
her introspective account of a trip to the Great Lakes region in 1843. Organized
as a series of travel episodes interspersed with literary and social commentary,
the work displays a style common to the portfolios, sketch books, and
commonplace books kept by educated nineteenth-century women. In addition to
her own thoughts about natural landscapes and human encounters, Fuller
includes stories, legends, allegorical dialogues, poems, and excerpts from the
works of other authors. When she traveled to the Midwest, Fuller was exhausted
by her work as editor of the Dial, the Transcendentalist journal she edited with
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Accompanied during part of the journey by her friends
James Clarke and Sarah Clarke, who created the book's etchings, Fuller traveled
by train, steamboat, carriage, and on foot in a circle from Niagara Falls north to
Mackinac Island and Sault Ste. Marie, west to Milwaukee, south to Pawpaw,
Illinois, and back to Buffalo. Fuller discusses Chicago in some detail, and
laments the unjust treatment of Native Americans. She comments on the
difficulties of pioneer life for women and on the degradation of the region's
beautiful and exhilarating natural environment. She speaks favorably about the
British-American agrarian visionary, Morris Birbeck, and includes a short story
about an old school friend, Mariana, who dies because her active mind cannot
adapt to the restrictive codes of behavior prescribed for the era's elite women.
SUBJECTS
Great Lakes--Description and travel.
Northwest, Old--Description and travel.
CALL NUMBER F551 .O84
DIGITAL ID lhbum 01714
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In another section of Summer on the Lakes, Fuller writes about women
settlers. She explains the differentiation among normalized gender roles
and identifies various hardships women settlers faced in the journey
westward.
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Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin,
ca. 1820-1910
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. By S.M. Fuller.
Ossoli, Sarah Margaret Fuller, marchesa d', 1810-1850.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
Boston, C. C. Little and J. Brown; New York, C. S. Francis and company, 1844.
SUMMARY
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), better known as Margaret Fuller, was
a writer, editor, translator, early feminist thinker, critic, and social reformer who
was associated with the Transcendentalist movement in New England. This is
her introspective account of a trip to the Great Lakes region in 1843. Organized
as a series of travel episodes interspersed with literary and social commentary,
the work displays a style common to the portfolios, sketch books, and
commonplace books kept by educated nineteenth-century women. In addition to
her own thoughts about natural landscapes and human encounters, Fuller
includes stories, legends, allegorical dialogues, poems, and excerpts from the
works of other authors. When she traveled to the Midwest, Fuller was exhausted
by her work as editor of the Dial, the Transcendentalist journal she edited with
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Accompanied during part of the journey by her friends
James Clarke and Sarah Clarke, who created the book's etchings, Fuller traveled
by train, steamboat, carriage, and on foot in a circle from Niagara Falls north to
Mackinac Island and Sault Ste. Marie, west to Milwaukee, south to Pawpaw,
Illinois, and back to Buffalo. Fuller discusses Chicago in some detail, and
laments the unjust treatment of Native Americans. She comments on the
difficulties of pioneer life for women and on the degradation of the region's
beautiful and exhilarating natural environment. She speaks favorably about the
British-American agrarian visionary, Morris Birbeck, and includes a short story
about an old school friend, Mariana, who dies because her active mind cannot
adapt to the restrictive codes of behavior prescribed for the era's elite women.
SUBJECTS
Great Lakes--Description and travel.
Northwest, Old--Description and travel.
CALL NUMBER
F551 .O84
DIGITAL ID
lhbum 01714
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/lhbumbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(lhbum+01714))
In the 1830s, Lowell, Massachusetts became one of the earliest factory
towns in America. Using the local river water as a power source, many
mills emerged in the town to produce textiles. Many other towns in the
Northeast were built using Lowell as a model for the new factory-based
model of a city.
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Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920
Item Title
[Lowell, Mass., mills on Merrimack River].
Created/Published
[between 1900 and 1910]
Notes
Title from jacket.
"4228" on negative.
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034904.
Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Subjects
Rivers.
Industrial facilities.
United States--Massachusetts--Lowell.
United States--Massachusetts--Merrimack River.
Dry plate negatives.
Related Names
Detroit Publishing Co., publisher.
Medium
1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Call Number
LC-D4-34904 <p&p>
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-D4-34904 DLC (b&w glass neg.)
Part of
Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540
USA
Digital ID
(digital file from intermediary roll film) det 4a18323
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Margaret Fuller was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in this house. Her
and many other activists from the early and mid 1800s were from the
Northeast. Fuller grew up as the initial wave of industrialization swept
through places like Lowell in Massachusetts.
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Item Title
Margaret Fuller House [i.e. Brattle House], Cambridge, Mass..
Created/Published
c[between 1910 and 1920]
Notes
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072347.
Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Subjects
Fuller, Margaret,--1810-1850--Homes & haunts.
Dwellings.
United States--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
Dry plate negatives.
Related Names
Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant, publisher.
Medium
1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
Call Number
LC-D4-72347 <p&p>
</p&p>
REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-D4-72347 DLC (b&w glass neg.)
Part of
Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540
USA
Digital ID
(digital file from intermediary roll film) det 4a24045
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/det.4a24045