“It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature.”

— Margaret Fuller, "American Literature," Papers on Literature and Art (1846)

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About Margaret Fuller

1810 – 1850

American journalist and women's rights advocate, author of "Woman in the Nineteenth Century".

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