![]() ![]() Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is also featured briefly. Popova compares Fuller to the writer and critic, Rebecca Solnit, another of my favourite writers today. And that she had an intellectually intimate relationship with Ralph Waldo Emerson. And that her book, Woman, was one of the first to make a case for the empowerment of women. I was fascinated to learn that Margaret Fuller’s travelogue, Summer on the Lakes, inspired Thoreau’s Walden. History is not what happened, but what survives of the shipwrecks of judgement and chance.” Figuring is about making meaning of the way lives intersect and continue to inspire in retrospect. All the while, we mistake chance for choice, our labels and models of things for the things themselves, our records for our history. We snatch our freeze-frame of life from the simultaneity of existence by holding onto illusions of permanence, congruence, and linearity of static selves and lives that unfold in sensical narratives. “We spend our lives trying to discern where we end and the rest of the world begins. ![]() Popova writes in the introduction to the book, They pushed the boundaries of society at the time and stayed true to themselves. Most are women who were remarkable in every way – including astronomer Maria Mitchell, sculptor Harriet Hosmer, writer Margaret Fuller, poet Emily Dickinson, amd scientist Rachel Carson. ![]() Figuring explores the lives of several people over the past four centuries – artists, writers, and scientists. ![]()
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