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In the earliest of the biographies of Margaret Fuller, Thomas Wentworth Higginson recalled that during his days as a student at Harvard College he had "seen Miss Fuller sitting, day after day, under the covert gaze of the undergraduates who had never before looked upon a woman reading within those sacred precincts."(1) The image of a solitary Fuller sitting amid books at America's most famous seat of learning tells us much about a century in which an intellectual woman was considered an oxymoron. It also signals an approach that has been typical since Higginson's volume appeared in 1884. In a biography published in 1940, Mason Wade approvingly cited Van Wyck Brooks's ...