{"product_id":"sparks-fly-up-the-lost-story-of-margaret-fuller-9781632261687","title":"Sparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"How can you describe a force?\" Margaret Fuller's friend Sam Ward asked after the pioneering feminist died in 1850 at age forty. Called by Henry James a \"ghost\" haunting American transcendentalism, Fuller comes to life in this historical novel--not as a pale specter but a passionate firebrand. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller\u003c\/i\u003e is a character- and plot-driven story of a brilliant woman who manages to infuriate and inspire peers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFuller wrote the first American book on women's rights and was the first female newspaper columnist and war correspondent. She shocked New England conservatives with her revolutionary zeal, affair with a young Italian soldier, and \"illegitimate\" child. On the cusp of returning to the States from Italy, she died in a shipwreck. Lost with Fuller was her manuscript on the Italian struggle for freedom (the \u003ci\u003eRisorgimento\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniting in Concord, Massachusetts, her friends squabble over how to memorialize her life. In this transformative, meticulously researched--and sure to be much discussed--view, some are proud of her ambition and others scandalized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrong female allies fight to preserve Fuller's legacy. A charming cad is not a fan. Thoreau must choose sides. Whitman is an aspiring poet disguised as a hack reporter, and Melville finds Fuller's story rousing. All are galvanized in a tour-de-force, cinematically thrilling, final scene. \"If you have knowledge,\" Fuller wrote, \"let others light their candles in it.\" \u003ci\u003eSparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller\u003c\/i\u003e shows how her light emboldens and radiates--then and now. As the characters wrestle with the question of \"me\" versus \"we,\" their ethical dilemmas are evergreen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e All Night Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632261687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Carol Strickland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52210022154421,"sku":"9781632261687","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_606fe3e8-e3b5-4906-8c61-f093e4a963cd.jpg?v=1770132106","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sparks-fly-up-the-lost-story-of-margaret-fuller-9781632261687","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}