Margaret Fuller vs. Jane Austen
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Margaret Fuller
1810 – 1850
Sarah Margaret Fuller, sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first American female war correspondent and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.
"Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life."
Jane Austen
1775 – 1817
Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist whose six major novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, critically and comically examined the lives and morals of the British landed gentry.
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
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