The 2024 Joel Myerson Annual Lecture
The 2024 Joel Myerson Annual Lecture: "The scrolls of the past burn my fingers": Reviving Margaret Fuller in the Library of America and Edinburgh Editions
Wednesday, October 30, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Goodwin Forum, Main Library & Live Streaming
This year's lecture will be presented by Professors Brigitte Bailey (University of New Hampshire), Leslie Eckel (Suffolk University) and Megan Marshall (Emerson College).
Two prize-winning biographies and a recent documentary film have revived Margaret Fuller as an inspiring foremother in feminism and early American activism. Given Fuller's leadership in the Transcendentalist movement and the range of her achievements in translation, editorial work, journalism, and foreign correspondence, scholars like Brigitte Bailey, Leslie Eckel, Megan Marshall, and their colleagues have committed themselves to creating fresh and comprehensive editions of her work for the Library of America and Edinburgh University Press. Join us to learn more about their goals, challenges and epiphanies in these new editions as we celebrate Fuller's vision of women's potential in our twenty-first-century world.
An exhibition accompanying the talk will be on view before and after the presentation. A reception will follow the event in the Rotunda. The Concord Free Public Library Corporation generously sponsors the Myerson Lecture Series.
This event is part of the Concord Festival of Authors.
