Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was a woman of action as well as ideas. Her life is itself a great American story, from precocious influence on Emerson and Thoreau and the rest of the New England Tracendentalists, to her years as a front-page newspaper columnist in New York, to her passionate engagement as a war correspondent and hospital superintendant in Italy. Her far-sighted writing-two books, numerous essays, poems and short fiction, and a vibrant archive of unpublished journals and letters-speaks to readers today with exceptional insight and relevance.

Brigitte Bailey is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics, and the Italian Tour, 1824-1862 (2018), co-editor of Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain (2012) and Margaret Fuller and Her Circles (2013), and former president of the Margaret Fuller Society. Dr. Noelle A. Baker, an independent scholar, is editor of Stanton in Her Own Time (2016) and co-editor of The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition (ongoing). She is editor in chief of the open-access, peer-reviewed journal Scholarly Editing and has served on the advisory board of the Margaret Fuller Transnational Archive and as an officer of the Margaret Fuller Society. Megan Marshall is the Charles Wesley Emerson Professor at Emerson College. She is the author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography; The Peabody Sisters (2005) winner of the Francis Parkman Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart (2025). She is a past president of the Society of American Historians and has served on the board of the Margaret Fuller Society.