Treasures Within: The Recovered Letters of Margaret Fuller

15/06/2022 38 min Episodio 11
Treasures Within: The Recovered Letters of Margaret Fuller

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In this episode, we are exploring the life of Margaret Fuller, the extraordinary 19th century intellectual who played a central role in the transcendentalist movement. We'll learn about a recovered parcel of Fuller's letters to her close friend, James Freeman Clarke. The letters had been lost for more than a hundred years before they were discovered carefully preserved in an ornate folio in the home of Clarke's descendants. Learn more about episode objects here: https://www.masshist.org/podcast/episode-11  Email us at [email protected]. Episode Special Guest: Megan Marshall is the Charles Wesley Emerson Professor at Emerson College and is the author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life. This episode uses materials from: Pounded Piano by Podington Bear (Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported) Psychic by Dominic Giam of Ketsa Music (licensed under a commercial non-exclusive license by the Massachusetts Historical Society through Ketsa.uk) Curious Nature by Dominic Giam of Ketsa Music (licensed under a commercial non-exclusive license by the Massachusetts Historical Society through Ketsa.uk)