Beyond the book, ahead of her time, Margaret Fuller, the most famous woman of the nineteenth century, seeks a stage to give courage and solace to us here and now. “A moment of action in one’s self is worth an age of apprehension through others; not that our deeds are better, but that they produce a renewal of our being,” declared Margaret Fuller, who, at the age of forty, drowned with her soldier husband and two-year-old son in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York attempting to return to America after reporting from Rome during one of history’s greatest military battles, the defense of the Roman Republic. The first woman foreign correspondent to report under combat conditions, the first American to write a book about equal rights for women, the first woman literary editor of a major American newspaper, Margaret Fuller put America on the world’s cultural map with her articles and reviews.