📸 from today’s Margaret Fuller Society panel at the 2026 Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, chaired by our beloved president Jana Argersinger! The panel was titled “Trouble and Recovery: Health in Margaret Fuller’s Life and Society”
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Celebrate Margaret Fuller’s 216th birthday by donating to the Margaret Fuller Society! ▶️ margaretfullersociety.org/conferences/...
💥 The submission deadline for this year’s Margaret Fuller Prize by the New England Quarterly is June 15th!
Happy 216th birthday to Margaret Fuller! Today’s celebration is a special one—the unveiling of a bronze statue of Fuller by distinguished American sculptor Penelope Jencks, at the Concord Free Public Library ⭐️
BIG NEWS 📣 “A life-size bronze likeness of 19th century writer, book reviewer, and women’s rights advocate Margaret Fuller has been donated to Massachusetts’ Concord Free Public Library Corporation and will be unveiled next month.”
- "Margaret Fuller's Physical Education" by Jess Libow: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... Enjoy and tell us which is your favorite! 😄 5/5
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- "Androgyny and Desire: M.Fuller, J.W.Howe, and Fractured Trans Archives" by @eagandean.bsky.social : muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... - "M. Fuller's First Depiction of Indians and the Limits on Social Protest: An Exercise in Women's Studies Pedagogy" by A.Kolodny: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 3/4
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- "Margaret Fuller's First Conversation Series: A Discovery in the Archives" by A. Ritchie: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... - "'The animating influences of Discord': Margaret Fuller in 1844" by S.Belasco: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 2/4
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Whose birthday is it today?... Margaret Fuller! 🎂🎈 Here's a selection of readings on one of the great transcendentalists... (there are so many articles on Fuller in our archives that I could not include them all, so do not hesitate to drop your other favorite pieces in the comments!) 1/4
Happy Margaret Fuller Day & Margaret Wise Brown Day! Ain’t that the best of American literature? memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/may-nomine...
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May 1: Judith Sargent Murray , one of my favorite Americans and a truly Revolutionary voice for equality . May 2: Albion Tourgée , who’s...
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💥 Exciting prospects: two Fuller Society-sponsored panels at ALA next week + two Margaret-related papers during a SSAWW roundtable next Thursday!
BIG NEWS 📣 “A life-size bronze likeness of 19th century writer, book reviewer, and women’s rights advocate Margaret Fuller has been donated to Massachusetts’ Concord Free Public Library Corporation and will be unveiled next month.”
Life-Size Bronze Sculpture of Margaret Fuller Donated to Concord Free Public Library
A life-size bronze likeness of 19th century writer, book reviewer, and women’s rights advocate Margaret Fuller has been donated to Massachusetts’ Concord Free Public Library Corporation and will be un...
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➡️ Tune in this Friday for a hybrid seminar devoted to Margaret Fuller, featuring papers by Sonia Di Loreto (Università di Torino) and Leslie Eckel (Suffolk University). The event, part of the A19 seminar series, will take place at Sorbonne Université in Paris & on Zoom (a19.hypotheses.org/3658)
Friday 17 April, 2-4 pm, Sorbonne Université: Sonia Di Loreto (Università di Torino) and Leslie Eckel (Suffolk University), “On Margaret Fuller” (Sorbonne Université, Room G073 / Zoom)
The session will take place on Friday 17 April, from 2.00 to 4.00 PM (Central European Summer Time) at Sorbonne Université, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Room G073, and online (Zoom link, ID:982 0950 5701, P...
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If you're attending #C19, please join us for Margaret Fuller Society's panel on Thursday, 12 March at 1:40-3:00 pm. It’s entitled “‘To Give Them All A Welcome To Our Shore': Immigrant Voices and Advocates in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals." More details below ⬇️
A new CFP is out! The MFS invites submissions for a panel on “Feminist and Anti-Racist Citation” at #MLA2027 in Los Angeles.
Happening now at #MLA26 ➡️ “Margaret Fuller and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Observing Nature, Engaging Science,” a panel sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society
#new The Margaret Fuller Society is inviting submissions for a panel titled “Teaching in Difficult Times” at the 2026 American Literature Association annual conference, to be held in Chicago on May 20-23 ▶️ Submissions are due by January 24
Some unexpected treats to top off the absolute treat that teaching this class on women's writings in the 19th-century United States was! Feeling immensely lucky to have had such engaged students and thought-provoking discussions in this course! 🌟
In case you haven't heard, the MFS's own 1st VP Mollie Barnes has just been elected VP of Organizational Matters for SSAWW, the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Heart-felt congratulations to both Mollie and SSAWW. That vibrant group is about to find out how lucky they are!
💥CFP: The Margaret Fuller Society is calling for papers for a panel on “Trouble and Recovery: Health in Margaret Fuller’s Life and Society” at the 2026 #ThoreauGathering in Concord, MA (8-12 July). Abstracts due by 31 December 2025.
The Margaret Fuller Society is calling for papers for a panel on “Trouble and Recovery: Health in Margaret Fuller’s Life and Society” at the 2026 #ThoreauGathering in Concord, MA (8-12 July). Abstracts due by 31 December 2025.
Issue 2.1 is out! Essays by @alicedegalzain.bsky.social & Peter Balaam; don’t miss our forum on higher ed now featuring Stephanie Foote, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social, @cnewf.bsky.social, & @samcohen.bsky.social Read/circulate/submit: thedialjournal.org
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The Margaret Fuller Society Online Bibliography has just been updated and is now LIVE! 👏 Check it out! margaretfullersociety.org/wp-content/u...
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The 2025 SSAWW Conference (6-9 November, Philadelphia) is just around the corner! Please join us on Friday 7 November for two roundtables about the roles of women author societies, co-organized by the Emily Dickinson Int. Society, the Margaret Fuller Society and the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society
💥An updated version of the program for the “Critical Health” conference I am co-organizing with @jpitettiheil.bsky.social is now online! Please visit our website (desktop version is recommended) at criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com
Commemorating the 175 anniversary of Margaret Fuller's tragic death at sea--just a few days ago, on July 19: www.loa.org/news-and-vie... #ScholarlyEditing #feminism #MargaretFuller #Women'sRights #FeministEditing
“An Uncompromising Revolution”: The Tragic Death and Long Afterlife of Margaret Fuller - Library of America
This essay was originally published as an e-mail newsletter on July 19, 2025, commemorating the 175th anniversary of Margaret Fuller’s death in 1850. Sign up to get more articles on American literatur...
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