Marshall’s Margaret Fuller: ‘Collected Writings’ Helps ‘Sharpen the Picture’: New Yorker

The New Yorker reviewed Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings (Library of America), co-edited by Professor Emerita Megan Marshall, whose prior Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Fuller, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, the publication called “superb.”

Speculating why it’s taken 45 years for the Library of America, which has issued collections of Cole Porter lyrics and Peanuts comics, to dedicate a collection to Fuller, New Yorker critic James Marcus decides it’s due to Fuller’s “blurry role in the canon.” Collected Writings, he writes, “should help to sharpen the picture.” 

“Its editors, Brigitte Bailey, Noelle A. Baker, and Megan Marshall, have embedded Fuller’s two books and a selection of her reportage in the context of her journals and correspondence. This seems like a wise approach for an author whose life speaks to us as eloquently as her work.”

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