The Lives of Margaret Fuller

5 best books like The Lives of Margaret Fuller (John Matteson): The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds, Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother, Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

Author

Simon Winchester

From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary.
Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up...

White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Author	Brenda Wineapple
ISBN	1400044014

After p. 125

'Tis a puzzlement - this Book -
'Tis - or 'twas -
Or -
Perhaps a bit of both -

At End

I must add this title to the short list of biographical narratives that I consider perfect (not that my selection bears any significance beyond the edge of my desk), in the...

Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds

Author	Lyndall Gordon
ISBN	0670021938

In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon,...

Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother

Author	Eve LaPlante
ISBN	1451620675

Marmee & Louisa, hailed by NPR as one of the best books of 2012, paints an exquisitely moving and utterly convincing portrait of Louisa May Alcott and her mother, the real Marmee. Award-winning biographer Eve LaPlante mines the Alcotts' intimate diaries and other private papers, some recently...

Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick

Author

Michael Shelden

A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville’s canonical work, Moby-Dick, was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional...