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SUMMARY:Murphy Branch Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Murphy Branch Book Club meets the first Wednesday of the 
 month at 11am\n\nThis month\, the Murphy Book Club will be reading Finding 
 Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki.\n\n You can view the book in our catalog 
 here.\n\nMassachusetts\, 1836. Young\, brazen\, beautiful\, and 
 unapologetically brilliant\, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from 
 Ralph Waldo Emerson\, the celebrated “Sage of Concord\,” to meet his 
 coterie of enlightened friends shaping a nation in the throes of its own 
 self-discovery. By the end of her stay\, she will become “the radiant 
 genius and fiery heart” of the Transcendentalists\, a role model to young 
 Louisa May Alcott\, an inspiration to Nathaniel Hawthorne and his 
 scandalous Scarlet Letter\, a friend to Henry David Thoreau as he ventures 
 into the woods of Walden Pond . . . and a muse to Emerson himself. But 
 Margaret craves more than poetry and interpersonal drama\, and she finds 
 her restless soul in need of new challenges and adventure.\n\nAnd so she 
 charts a singular course against a backdrop of dizzying historical drama: 
 From Boston\, where she hosts a women-only literary salon for students like 
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton\; to the editorial meetings of The Dial magazine\, 
 where she hones her pen as its co-founder\; to Harvard’s library\, where 
 she is the first woman to study within its walls\; to the gritty New York 
 streets where she spars with Edgar Allan Poe and reports on the writings of 
 Frederick Douglass. Margaret defies conventions time and again as an 
 activist for women and an advocate for humanity\, earning admirers and 
 scathing critics alike.\n\nWhen the legendary Horace Greeley offers an 
 assignment in Europe\, Margaret again makes history as the first female 
 foreign news correspondent\, mingling with luminaries like Frederic 
 Chopin\, Walt Whitman\, George Sand\, and more. But it is in Rome where she 
 finds a world of passion\, romance\, and revolution\, taking a Roman count 
 as a lover—and sparking an international scandal. Evolving yet again into 
 the roles of mother and countess\, Margaret enters a new fight for 
 Italy’s unification.
LOCATION:Murphy
ORGANIZER;CN="Van Hoang":MAILTO:van.hoang@surfcity-hb.org
CATEGORIES:Murphy
CONTACT;CN="Van Hoang":MAILTO:van.hoang@surfcity-hb.org
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