Sparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller - Strickland, Carol
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"How can you describe a force?" Margaret Fuller's friend Sam Ward asked after the pioneering feminist died in 1850 at age forty. Called by Henry James a "ghost" haunting American transcendentalism, Fuller comes to life in this historical novel--not as a pale specter but a passionate firebrand. Sparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller is a character- and plot-driven story of a brilliant woman who manages to infuriate and inspire peers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville. Fuller wrote the first American book on women's…mehr

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"How can you describe a force?" Margaret Fuller's friend Sam Ward asked after the pioneering feminist died in 1850 at age forty. Called by Henry James a "ghost" haunting American transcendentalism, Fuller comes to life in this historical novel--not as a pale specter but a passionate firebrand. Sparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller is a character- and plot-driven story of a brilliant woman who manages to infuriate and inspire peers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville. Fuller wrote the first American book on women's rights and was the first female newspaper columnist and war correspondent. She shocked New England conservatives with her revolutionary zeal, affair with a young Italian soldier, and "illegitimate" child. On the cusp of returning to the States from Italy, she died in a shipwreck. Lost with Fuller was her manuscript on the Italian struggle for freedom (the Risorgimento). Uniting in Concord, Massachusetts, her friends squabble over how to memorialize her life. In this transformative, meticulously researched--and sure to be much discussed--view, some are proud of her ambition and others scandalized. Strong female allies fight to preserve Fuller's legacy. A charming cad is not a fan. Thoreau must choose sides. Whitman is an aspiring poet disguised as a hack reporter, and Melville finds Fuller's story rousing. All are galvanized in a tour-de-force, cinematically thrilling, final scene. "If you have knowledge," Fuller wrote, "let others light their candles in it." Sparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller shows how her light emboldens and radiates--then and now. As the characters wrestle with the question of "me" versus "we," their ethical dilemmas are evergreen.
Autorenporträt
Carol Strickland earned a Ph.D. in American literature from the University of Michigan. She has taught writing and literature at various universities but never included Margaret Fuller's work in course syllabi. Her novel, Sparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller is an attempt to compensate for omitting a giant of American intellectual history. Strickland has contributed features to newspapers including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor and to magazines including Art in America, Art and Antiques, and Momus. Her introduction to art history, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present, has sold more than 400,000 copies in three editions since 1992. The Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History of Architecture is often used in college courses. Other books include The Illustrated Timeline of Art History and The Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature. Strickland's first historical novel The Eagle and the Swan is set in the late Roman Empire of sixth-century Constantinople.