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This paper provides an analysis of Margaret Fuller's "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" that focuses on the harsh criticism the plea for women's rights received initially by an all-male group of literary critics. How this is relevant to contemporary views, and insights of Fuller's work are then described.

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"Margaret Fuller was born in Cambridgeport, MA, on .. May ... (Hampson) At a time when women had few if any rights apart from their husband, Fuller received an intellectually rigorous classical education. (Hampson) Typical of her entire life, Margaret Fuller challenged the boundaries of this education and she ultimately became the first woman ever to be admitted to the formerly all-male Harvard College Library. In "Joseph Jay", Deiss wrote of Fuller that she might hold more firsts than any American woman in history."

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