“Taken as a whole the book opens up wide intellectual and imaginative horizons.”
+ Nation 112:46 Ja 12 ’21 400w
“The book is like some fine-grained granite rock of solid psychological and historical scholarship, all sun-flicked with glinting humor and warm-hearted common sense.” E. F. Wyatt
+ New Repub 25:22 D 1 ’20 1250w
“Margaret Fuller’s genius was akin to madness, and how far such an analysis of so abnormal a character is of real value is questionable. It is, however, unquestionably well done.”
+ − Outlook 126:575 N 17 ’20 80w
“To explain Margaret’s hysteria by a purely Freudian hypothesis is folly, and something a good deal worse than folly.”
− Review 3:388 O 27 ’20 400w R of Rs 62:669 D ’20 120w
“Katharine Anthony’s ‘Margaret Fuller,’ a ‘psychological biography’ is infested with preconceptions and is unpleasantly provocative in tone.”
− + Springf’d Republican p6 O 11 ’20 520w