PHOTOS OF OUR MARGARET FULLER BICENTENNIAL EVENTS

"Our Celebration Committee Announces Our Events"
"Margaret Fuller 19th Century Fundraiser Dinner Party" Jami Schultz, Photographer
"A Medley for Margaret Fuller" A dramatically staged reading by Laurie James CUNY Graduate Center May 6, 2010 Jim Bridges, Photographer
"Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" A dramatic slide presentation of Fuller's achievement With Pulitzer Prize winner John Matteson and Laurie James Center for Independent Publishing May 11, 2010 Jim Bridges, Photographer
"Follow the Footsteps of Margaret Fuller in New York City" A guided walking tour with Fuller and Her Friends May 22, 2010 Jim Bridges, Photographer
"Margaret Fuller Birthday Party" Featuring a Reading of "O Excellent Friend!" - Play by Laurie James The Community Church of New York May 23, 2010 Peter Sylvester, Photographer
"Follow the Footsteps of Margaret Fuller in Boston, Cambridge, Concord" A weekend Guided Tour October 1 - 3, 2010 Katherine Thackeray, Photographer
"Follow the Footsteps of Margaret Fuller in Rome, Rieti, Florence"  An 11 Day Guide Tour October 17 - 27, 2010 Lynn Gross, Photographer

THE MARGARET FULLER STORY AND WHY WE CELEBRATED

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.  READ MORE...

WE HONORED A GREAT AMERICAN

●  FIRST American to write a book about equality for women
●  FIRST professional 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

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.  READ MORE...

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.  READ MORE...

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 initiator and project director.

We are funded in part by The Fund for Unitarian Universalism, The New York Council for the Humanities, UU Women’s Association and UU Women and Religion – Metro District, as well as from many donations from generous individuals.

Committee members in New York City include Terry Bain, Sandra Frank, Daniela Gioseffi, Lynn Gross, Madeline Hansen, Maureen Holder, Laurie James, Reena Kondo, Wendy Moscow, Heidi Siegfried.

SPONSORS

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 sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation (UUWF). James wrote and directed her play "A Medley for Margaret Fuller" for the Margaret Fuller 2010 Bicentennial Celebration. Information and photos above.