A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately ... holding forth on the splendors of Italian art.” Fuller took George Sand and Madame De Staël as ...

THE LIVES OF MARGARET FULLER: A Biography. By John Matteson. Norton. 510 pages. $32.95. The mother of transcendentalism, a leading light of American feminism, the most well-read person in early 19 ...