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Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller very possibly spoke the truth, and the literary men of the age both admired and shied away from her

Margaret Fuller is usually remembered—if at all—because she is supposed to have told Thomas Carlyle in London, “I accept the universe.” The legend implies that she underwent a struggle to achieve this accommodation, and that the universe was to feel complimented.

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