TV-14 2021 00:39:59 Documentary Educational

Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Revolutionary

"Biography of a leading female 19th century intellect, cohort of Thoreau and Emerson, embeds in Italian Revolution. "

Director Jonathan Schwartz-

Cast Katie Kornacki, Meagan Marshall, Charles Caper, Leslie Eckel

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Synopsis

Preeminent female Victorian Age intellectual collaborates with Transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau, educates Boston Brahmins and incarcerated women in classic literature. A brilliant and brash social critic, she arrives in Rome and embeds in the Italian Republican Revolution for democratic utopianism. It ends in tragedy, but she forever alters notions of a women's right to think and work.