Margaret and Her Friends or Ten Conversations with Margaret Fuller Upon the Mythology of the Greeks and Its Expression in Art.
(Fuller, Margaret) (Dall, Caroline.) Healey, Caroline H. Margaret and Her Friends. Or Ten Conversations with Margaret Fuller upon the Mythology of the Greeks and Its Expression in Art. Held at the House of the Rev. George Ripley, Bedford Place, Boston.Beginning March 1, 1841. Reported by Caroline W. Healey. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895.
8vo.; hinge cracked at front endpaper; brown cloth, stamped in grey and gilt; with typescript annotations affixed to the front endpaper and manuscript annotations on the half-title page by a contemporary reader.
First edition of Healey’s record of Fuller’s famous lectures. Margaret Fuller famously hosted "Conversations" among female intellectuals to try to make up for the dearth of women's education in the nineteenth century. As Healey states in the preface, the "Conversations" recorded in this work occurred at a time when Fuller was in desperate financial straits. She planned to host ten "Conversations," inviting both men and women to join at the rather exorbitant price of twenty dollars per ticket. Healey was herself invited to record these "Conversations" on the basis of an even more substantial financial contribution. The result of Healey’s labor is a first hand account of ten "Conversations," that revolve in large part around Greek mythology. Guests invited to the discussions recorded within include Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sophia and George Ripley, Sophia and Elizabeth Peabody. Healey, who eventually became a major writer in the woman's rights movement in Massachusetts, published under her married name, Dall, subsequent to this book.
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