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Annamaria Formichella Elsden
The Only Efficient Instrument, 04/2005Book Chapter
In many ways Margaret Fuller was an eccentric among her peers, a puzzle who mystified her contemporaries and who continues to elude her critics. Fuller herself questioned her identity in an 1831 diary entry that recalls a childhood moment of perplexity: “How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller? What does it mean? What shall I do about it?” (Von Mehren 6). Henry James framed her as an enigma when he reportedly inquired, “Would she, with her appetite for ideas and her genius for conversation, have struck us but as a formidable bore, one of the worst
