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Excerpt from Margaret Fuller, American Romantic: A Selection From Her Writings and Correspondence I must limit my selection of Margaret's writings to only a few reports out of a large and absorbing compilation. Unless these fragments can of themselves prove her case, both in respect to her period and to the modern reader, there is no point in pleading for her. Emerson judged that her writings were naught, and for a long time after her death her friends maintained this fiction. Elizabeth Bar rett Browning, who became genuinely fond of her in Flor ence in 1849, warned, If I wished anyone to do her jus tice, I should say, as I have indeed said, 'never read what she has written. Yet I insist that, in the final analysis, the publications of Margaret Fuller constitute a gallant, albeit a minor, chapter in the history of Ammca's persisting quest for self-realization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.