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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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A book by the American journalist, editor and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller, first published as an essay titled The Great Lawsuit in the Transcendentalist magazine The Dial in July 1843, then substantially expanded and republished in book form under its current title in 1845. It argues for women's intellectual and economic self-reliance and is regarded as one of the founding texts of American feminist thought. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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General 1
Original Language
English 1
Composed, From (Year)
1843 to 1845 1
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How did Woman in the Nineteenth Century grow from a magazine essay into a book?

Horace Greeley encouraged Fuller to expand her 1843 Dial essay, and about one-third of the 1845 book was new.

Margaret Fuller began the essay on a trip to Chicago in 1843 and published it in serial form in The Dial, the transcendentalist journal she edited, under the title The Great Lawsuit. The publisher Horace Greeley was impressed and encouraged her to rewrite it as a full-length book. About one-third of the book-length version was new, and it appeared in 1845 as Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
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    Woman in the Nineteenth Century is a book by American journalist, editor, and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller.
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    Woman in the Nineteenth Century is a book by American journalist, editor, and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller.
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    Woman in the Nineteenth Century is a book by American journalist, editor, and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller. Originally published in July 1843 in The Dial magazine as "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women", it was later expanded and republished in book form in 1845.
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    Woman in the Nineteenth Century is a book by American journalist, editor, and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller.
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    first published as an essay titled The Great Lawsuit in the Transcendentalist magazine The Dial in July 1843, then substantially expanded and republished in book form under its current title in 1845
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