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Miss Fuller

Author: April Bernard

2014 Longlist

What does one sensitive but ordinary woman make of a publicly disgraced woman like Fuller, and how do women make use of what they learn from other women? Miss Fuller is a historical novel that also poses timeless questions about how we see and treat the exceptional and dangerous agents of change among us.

And it shows the price that any one person might pay, who strives to change the world for the better.

It is 1850.  Margaret Fuller – feminist, journalist, orator, and “the most famous woman in America” – is returning from Europe where she covered the Italian revolution for The New York Tribune.  She is bringing home with her an Italian husband, the Count Ossoli, and their two-year-old son.  But this is not the gala return of a beloved American heroine. This is a furtive, impoverished return under a cloud of suspicion and controversy.  When the ship founders in a hurricane off Long Island and Fuller and her small family drown, her friends back home, Emerson and others of the Transcendentalist Concord circle, send Henry David Thoreau to the wreck in hopes of recovering her last book manuscript.  He comes back declaring himself empty handed – but actually he has found a private and revealing document, a confession in letters, of a strong and beloved woman’s life like no other in the 19th century.  Her account of the life of the mind and body, of experiences in Rome under siege, of dangerous childbirth and great physical and moral courage are eventually revealed to her one reader, Thoreau’s youngest sister, Anne. She was the most famous woman in America.  And nobody knew who she was.

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About the Author

April Bernard (born 1956) is an American poet. She was born and raised in New England, and graduated from Harvard University. She has worked as a senior editor at Vanity Fair, Premiere, and Manhattan, inc. In the early 1990s, she taught at Amherst College. In Fall 2003, she was Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. She currently teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Boston Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, Parnassus, and The New York Review of Books.

Librarian’s Comments

April Bernard has written “a simple and concentrated tale” (Booklist 15/04/2012) which confirms that real people can be made most real by a sensitive hand with literary license.

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Author

April Bernard

Country

US

Nominating Library

Hartford Public Library, USA

Publisher

Steerforth Press, USA

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