Books written by Megan Marshall
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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
Jayne Yaffe Kemp's expert manuscript editing has made the book shine. My work on The Peabody Sisters has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (enabling a year's assistance from the indefatigable ...
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Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Then she offered brief sketches ofRhea's progeny: Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Neptune, Diana, Apollo, Mercury, Venus, all “embodiments of Absolute Ideas”—Will, Wisdom, Thought, Purity, Genius, Beauty. Frank Shaw broke in to ask how these ...
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving use of a newly discovered cache of Bishop’s letters to reveal a much darker childhood than has been known, a secret affair, and the last chapter of her passionate romance with Brazilian modernist ...
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
A brilliantly rendered life of one of the most admired American poets of the last century, from a Pulitzer Prize−winning author who alternates biography with a memoir of her own days as a young writer in Bishop's famous Harvard poetry ...
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Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Provides a portrait of Thoreau's editor and Emerson's friend, who was also a daring war correspondent and a crusader for women's rights who had a passion for her life's work, which was eclipsed by tragedy and scandal after her death at the ...
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
A brilliantly rendered life of one of the most admired American poets of the last century, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who alternates biography with a memoir of her own days as a young writer in Bishop's famous Harvard poetry ...
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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women who Ignited American Romanticism
The first full account of the "American Brontës" focuses on Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody--three sisters who were essential to American Romanticism as editors, writers, reformers, and ground-breaking thinkers. 25,000 first printing.
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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women who Ignited American Romanticism
The first full account of the "American Brontës" focuses on Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody--three sisters who were essential to American Romanticism as editors, writers, reformers, and ground-breaking thinkers.