Margaret Fuller: The Stage Play
Beyond the book, ahead of her time, Margaret Fuller, the most famous woman of the nineteenth century, seeks a stage and a screen to give courage and solace to us here and now.
“A moment of action in one’s self is worth an age of apprehension through others; not that our deeds are better, but that they produce a renewal of our being,” declared Margaret Fuller, who, at the age of forty, drowned with her soldier husband and two-year-old son in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York attempting to return to America after reporting from Rome during one of history’s greatest military battles, the defense of the Roman Republic. The first woman foreign correspondent to report under combat conditions, the first American to write a book about equal rights for women, the first woman literary editor of a major American newspaper, Margaret Fuller put America on the world’s cultural map with her articles and reviews.
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Sir Little Bear was once homeless on the streets of the Bronx, facing harsh people, animals, and birds—until a pair of magical dog catchers “knighted” him and sent him to Georgia and Mark’s loving home in the suburbs. There, he teams up with the backyard critters and birds, and helps bring baby squirrel Rocky into the house, where Rocky’s adorable antics on social media capture hearts everywhere and raise awareness for the Earth during a time of isolation, fear, and environmental crisis. In the end, humans, animals, and the planet all begin to heal together.
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The Importance of Margaret Fuller in the 21st Century
Margaret Fuller matters in the 21st century because her radical ideas about gender equality, education, and global justice anticipated today’s conversations about feminism, human rights, and social reform. As a pioneering critic, journalist, and philosopher, she…
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Verified Forgotten Woman of the Nineteenth Century THE ESSAY Final Romance for Margaret Fuller THE STAGE PLAY | Women and Feminists (Yes, good Sir, you too!): TAKE NOTE! Women and Feminists (yes, good Sir, you too!) of the world, take note! Yet another strong, learned, and inspirational woman is unveiled from the dark recesses of history. Author Mark Wilderman has devoted himself painstakingly to introducing to us a woman of many firsts in American history in his book Forgotten Women of the Nineteenth Century: The Essay; Final Romance for Margaret Fuller: The Stage Play: First woman granted the privilege to use the Harvard College Library, first woman literary critic, first woman of an intellectual publication, The Dial (a Transcendentalist journal), first woman to write a book of equality for women, Women in the Nineteenth Century (1845), and the list goes on! Her name was Margaret Fuller. And she lived from 1818 to 1850. An acquaintance, Ednah Dow Cheney provides a hint of the type of woman Margaret Fuller was. Asked by Margaret, “Is life rich to you?”, she replied, “It is since I have known you.” She goes on to say “Such was the response of many a youthful heart to her, and herein was her wonderful influence. She did not make us her disciples, her blind followers. She opened the book of life to us and helped us to read it for ourselves.” Along with a thorough synopsis of Margaret Fuller’s short life, Wilderman goes even further in shedding more light on the world of this prodigious personality with his stage play in two acts “The Final Romance for Margaret Fuller”. The lives of transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne are intertwined throughout Act I giving readers a more in depth look at the people in Margaret’s life from her younger years to her teens. Act II sees Margaret hired by Horace Greeley as the New York Tribune’s literary editor. These experiences encompass Margaret Fuller’s final years before her tragic death in 1850. Mark Wilderman has gifted us with the story of a remarkable life few historians, much less the general public, have knowledge of. Margaret Fuller rises, like the proverbial phoenix, from the ashes of history tightening the weave of, not only Women’s Studies but to American history at its best! A great read not to be overlooked!Posted onVerified Forgotten Woman of the Nineteenth Century THE ESSAY Final Romance for Margaret Fuller THE STAGE PLAY | Margaret Fuller, a woman worth knowing. The name Margaret Fuller was just another of many that I've heard over the years but couldn't actually place. Through reading this book I have finally made her acquaintance and have found her to be a woman worth knowing. I have to agree with the original intent of the author. This story would make a wonderful movie, one that I would very much like to see.Posted onVerified Forgotten Woman of the Nineteenth Century THE ESSAY Final Romance for Margaret Fuller THE STAGE PLAY | A fascinating book This is a fascinating book. A great insightful biography and an inspiring play. I very much enjoyed reading it. I highly recommend it.Posted onVerified Forgotten Woman of the Nineteenth Century THE ESSAY Final Romance for Margaret Fuller THE STAGE PLAY | A must read for those who support women's rights I'd never heard of Margaret Fuller but I'm now captivated by her story. I had forgotten how many women in centuries past showed clearly and intelligently how important women's rights are for everyone. We owe them a debt and gratitude for those who tell their stories. This book is very entertaining with many references. The author is now one of my keepers! Hope he continues his fine writing.Posted onVerified Forgotten Woman of the Nineteenth Century THE ESSAY Final Romance for Margaret Fuller THE STAGE PLAY | Enlightening and Edifying I felt as if I were walking and talking with the Transcendentalists while reading this play: Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and of course, last but never least, Margaret Fuller, the editor of their journal The Dial. The language in the late 1800s was formal and tending towards flowery, but if the reader takes the plunge there are nuggets of wisdom to be discovered, along with a hidden history of a tragedy that deserves to be told. Margaret Fuller was a ‘true’ feminist who sought not to compete with men but to find her autonomy and relationship to God first and foremost. That she became a foreign journalist who covered the war in Italy, married and had a child at age 40, and ‘was the first woman allowed in the Harvard Library’ (really?!) only add to her list of intellectual accomplishments. Her message about the complicated journey of a woman is needed today as much as it was in the 1800s.Posted onVerified Forgotten Woman of the Nineteenth Century THE ESSAY Final Romance for Margaret Fuller THE STAGE PLAY | We need more Margarets Mark Wildermann’s use of historical dialogue to weave together the story of Margaret Fuller is clever, and he does it well. This account edifies well-deserved lessons for the future. I think Margaret Fuller can be an inspiration to all of us wishing to see the world grow. Indeed, it does well to remember her story was tragic, and still is.Posted onVerified Forgotten Woman of the Nineteenth Century THE ESSAY Final Romance for Margaret Fuller THE STAGE PLAY | an amazing story Oh I think this would make a terrific play in these times of the Me 2 Movement we need to see more plays and films like this.Posted onVerified Forgotten Woman of the Nineteenth Century THE ESSAY Final Romance for Margaret Fuller THE STAGE PLAY | When is this heading to Broadway? Masterful!Posted onVerified Nuts! Our Backyard: A True Story, Mostly | Adorably engaging book! For both children and adults, nothing is more heartwarming than the caring relationships between animals and humans and, of course, that goes for the relationships between the critters themselves! Sir Little Bear and Rocky; a dog and a rescued squirrel become fast friends in a backyard that is home to other furry and feathered friends. Sir Little Bear (or just “Bear” as his family calls him) is on a mission in his life to listen. He has a calling to “listen”. And through his daily adventures he tries to determine what it is he needs to listen to. Along with his other critter companions and Rocky, he finally figured it out. An enchanting story with a sweet message for old and young alike!Posted onVerified Nuts! Our Backyard: A True Story, Mostly | A really great read for the kids I read this book before buying it for the grandkids. Sounded interesting. I loved it. Well written, a lovely story beautifully told involving birds, dogs, squirrels, racoons, chipmunks and much more, aiming to make earth a beautiful place for everyone to live happily as ‘humans are hurting life and know it not’. Council meetings, intrigues and decisions follow. The variety makes it so educational – it’s not just “birds” – its finches, sparrows, jays, doves, cormorants, red-winged blackbirds, Quaker parrots, chickadees, grackle….. much to tickle the child’s mind and broaden their education. Every child will enjoy this book. Parents will love reading this book to their children. And older people can enjoy it too! Highly recommended