How were the Transcendentalists Invested in Social Change?
Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Peabody Personal intuition does not rely on gender, women could be equals Not an equal rights movement but feminism discussed Margaret Fuller MF as Transcendentalist May my life be a church -In private letter to William Henry Channing I would preach the Holy Ghost as zealously as they [the Unitarians] have been preaching Man, and faith instead of the understanding . . . (1840 letter)[11] Fuller editor of the Dial, the Transcendentalist journal Thwarted by society, brilliant, today would be published writer, linguist, minister or theologian – no room big enough for her in 19th century America Emerson says her social skill so great that she wore her friends as a necklace of diamonds around her neck.
