Dr. Kornacki is guest on BBC’s “The Forum” on 19th century writer Margaret Fuller

English Department Chair Katie Kornacki is a guest on BBC’s podcast “The Forum” hosted by Bridget Kendell to talk about early feminist and war correspondent Margaret Fuller.  

Kornacki, founding editor of the Margaret Fuller Society’s Conversations: The Newsletter of the Margaret Fuller Society, joins Kendell in her discussion with Megan Marshall, professor at Emerson College in Boston whose book Margaret Fuller: A New American Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the cultural critic Judith Thurman, staff writer for the New Yorker magazine and an award-winning biographer.

Kornacki talks about her experience growing up in Groton, Massachusetts and how driving past a home where Fuller lived, she first became interested in the 19th-century transcendentalist, feminist, and journalist who wrote about social conditions.   She talks about Fuller’s development of her travelogue Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, which was her first original book-length work and gave her a chance to be visible on a larger stage and show her intellectual abilities at a time when women were denied formal education. She shares Fuller’s experiences in pushing boundaries that women faced in class and education and her experiences interacting with Native American women. 

To listen go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct38s3

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 or listen through Apple podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/forum-a-world-of-ideas/id284278990?mt=2

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