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The Margaret Fuller Story and
Why We Celebrate
Fuller is acknowledged
as having been the most brilliant woman in America. Radical and
controversial in her day and age, she was a world celebrity in the
1840s as well known as Gloria Steinem is today.
She should be remembered not only as our foremother, but also as
first American to write a book about women’s equality. She laid the
groundwork for the women’s rights movement in the United States.
Yet at least one contemporary scholar suggests that it is up to
future generations to decide whether or not she is to be remembered.
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An Opportunity to Honor
a Great American
● FIRST American to
write a book about equality for women
● FIRST American
war correspondent / served under combat conditions
● FIRST woman
foreign correspondent
● FIRST woman
journalist on Horace Greeley’s New York Daily Tribune
● FIRST woman
literary critic / set literary standards
● FIRST editor,
The Dial magazine
● FIRST to organize
paid "Conversations" for women (educational "rap sessions")
● FIRST woman
to
enter Harvard Library for research purposes - a giant step since
colleges were closed to women
How You Can Join the
Celebration
● ATTEND Margaret
Fuller Programs
● CREATE Your Own
Exciting Events
● ENJOY Margaret
Fuller Plays and Readings
●
BRING Laurie James's solo drama on Margaret Fuller to your
venue
● LISTEN to Margaret Fuller Lectures
● READ about
Margaret Fuller
● Have FUN with a
BIRTHDAY PARTY for Margaret Fuller, a Performance, an Exhibit,
Reception or Tea
● Go on "FOLLOW THE
FOOTSTEPS OF MARGARET FULLER" Tours
● SEE, HEAR and
TALK to Scholars and Actors about Margaret Fuller
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ORGANIZE Margaret Fuller "Conversations"
● DEDICATE a song,
a poem, a story, a musical composition to Margaret Fuller
● SPREAD THE WORD
about Margaret Fuller
● And much much
more!
Free Events in New York
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May 6, 2010, 7:30 PM - FREE |
May 11, 2010, 6:30 PM - FREE |
May 23, 2010, 11:00 AM - FREE |
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A Medley for Margaret Fuller |
Men, Women & Margaret Fuller |
Margaret Fuller Birthday Party |
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A dramatically staged presentation with eight actors reading
from the writings of Margaret Fuller that covers her life
story and accomplishments, adapted and directed
by the prize-winning author/actor Laurie James. Prof.
Marc Dolan will introduce and comment. Co-sponsored
by Prof. Victoria Pitts-Taylor, The Center for the Study of Women and
Society; Prof. Marc Dolan, American Studies; Prof. Stephen
Kruger, English Department. |
A dramatic presentation of Margaret Fuller's life and
achievement with slides
of the circle of friends known as
Transcendentalists. Introductions by Madeline Hansen,
women's history lecturer, and Leah Schnelbach, Interim Director, Center
for Independent Publishing.
Co-sponsored by CIP, an educational program of the General
Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen. |
Margaret Fuller Worship Service,
Rev. Bruce Southworth.
Followed by a Margaret Fuller Birthday Party, featuring a
reading of O Excellent Friend!, a
prize-winning play based on the letters and journals of
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller by author/actor
Laurie James, covering the truth of the close relationship.
Introductions by women's history lecturer Madeline Hansen
and UUWA Chair Reena Kondo. Co-sponsored by The Community
Church of New York. |
Where:
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, NYC |
Where:
The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
20 West 44th Street, NYC |
Where:
The Community Church of New York
40 East 35th Street, NYC |
Margaret Fuller's Connection to
New York
● Margaret
Fuller became a world celebrity while living and working in New
York, 1846-47.
● Fuller
wrote her major work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, the
first in America to speak out on women's equality, in Fishkill, NY
and Horace Greeley, editor of The New York Daily Tribune,
published it in New York City. It was sold out within a week -
thereby becoming a best-seller.
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Why Margaret Fuller Shocked Americans
● She did not
conform to the accepted standard of womanhood. She was considered
ugly, bright, arrogant, aggressive, outspoken. “Truth at all costs”
was her maxim.
● She ventured a
love liaison with a Roman nobleman ten years younger than herself,
not equally educated or intellectual, who was a Catholic, and could
not speak English.
● She scandalously
gave birth, it was rumored, out of wedlock, secretly.
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Guided Tours: Follow the
Footsteps of Margaret Fuller
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May 22, 2010 at 10 AM |
October 1-3,
2010 |
October 17-27,
2010 |
New York City
A 1-Day Guided Walking Tour |
Boston-Cambridge-Concord, MA
A Weekend Guided Tour |
Rome-Rieti-Florence, Italy
A 10-Day Guided Tour |
Start at Horace Greeley's Farm (across from
Blackwell's Island), down 2nd Avenue, The Bowery, Five
Points, to Nassau and Spruce Streets, Manhattan. Talk to
scholars/actors costumed as Margaret Fuller, Horace Greeley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry
David Thoreau, Edgar Allen Poe, Lydia Maria Child, Anne
Lynch - at Farm and Five Points!
Itinerary |
Margaret Fuller House; Fuller Statue, Plaque, Square;
Monument at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Harvard Yard; Emerson House;
Walden Pond and Thoreau's cabin; Old Manse; Orchard House;
Elizabeth Peabody's Bookstore; Boston Commons; UUA
Headquarters; and videos, scholar's talks, and more!
Itinerary |
The Vatican, Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's;
Coliseum; Spanish Steps; Trevi Fountain; Castel Saint
Angelo; Cafe Greco, Tiber Island, Trasevere, Janiculum Hill,
Pincian Hill; Plaza Barbarini, The Barbarini Palace; Villa
Borghese; The Pantheon; The Corso; Santa Maria Maggiore;
Ossoli Chapel; Viale Margaret Fuller Ossoli; The Quirinal;
Rieti where Fuller gave birth; Florence where Fuller lived;
Duomo; Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Casa Guido, and lots
more!
Itinerary |
Tour Guides: Reena Kondo, Laurie James and
scholar/actors
Cost: $10 per person.
Reserve a Pedi-Cab if you wish to ride (Pedi-Cab extra).
RSVP:
reenakondo@verizon.net |
Tour Guides: Reena Kondo and Laurie James
Includes: 2 nights Eliot Pickett House (double
occupancy); bus tour; some meals; entrance fees.
Cost: From $395 per person (subject to change)
excluding transport to Boston.
RSVP:
goldenheritage@nyc.rr.com |
Tour Guides: Lynn Gross, Mario Bannoni, and Laurie
James
Includes: Hotels; some meals; 2 days bus tour in Rome;
bus transportation Rome to Rieti and Florence.
Cost: From $2600 per person (subject to change)
excluding air fare.
RSVP:
ljgart@aol.com |
Download a printable flyer
here.
For more information and to reserve your space,
CONTACT US.
About the
Margaret Fuller
Bicentennial
Committee
The Margaret Fuller Bicentennial Committee is a grassroots
partnership of individuals and interest groups in New York. Laurie
James is the initiator.
We are funded in part by Fund for Unitarian Universalism, UU Women’s Association and UU Women & Religion
– Metro District, and from donations.
Committee members in New York City include Terry Bain, Rosalind
Depas, Sandra Frank, Daniela Gioseffi, Lynn Gross, Madeline Hansen,
Maureen Holder, Laurie James, Reena Kondo, Wendy Moscow, Heidi
Siegfried.
Donate to the Margaret Fuller Bicentennial Project
By check:
Please make
your check payable to "UU District of Metro NY", write "MFB Project" in the
Memo, and mail to:
The Margaret Fuller Bicentennial Committee
500 West 43rd Street, Suite 26J
New York, NY 10036
Your donations are tax deductible.
Sponsor Links
City University of New York, Graduate Center
visit website
CUNY Center for the Study of Women and Society
visit website
American Studies
visit website
English Department
visit website
The New York Center for Independent Publishing
visit website
The Community Church of New York
visit website
UUWA and UU Women & Religion – Metro District
visit website
Fund for UUism
visit website
Shelter Rock Women's Group, Unitarian Universalist Congregation at
Shelter Rock, Manhasset, New York
visit website
UU Women's Federation
visit website
Point o' Woods Historical Society, Point o' Woods, Fire Island
Contact Us
goldenheritage@nyc.rr.com
*The Margaret Fuller Award is a grant for women by the Unitarian
Universalist Women’s Federation (UUWF). James will write and
direct "A Medley for Margaret Fuller." Information above. |
