Worship at the Meeting House: Upcoming Services

Sunday, May 2, 10 am

Rev. Katie Lee Crane

First Parish Reflects on Margaret Fuller, the “great woman” behind Emerson and Transcendentalism

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was an author, editor, journalist, literary critic, educator, Transcendentalist, women’s rights advocate, mother, and life-long Unitarian. Her work is still largely forgotten or ignored except by scholars. Rev. Katie Lee Crane “discovered” Fuller’s work accidentally when she was assigned to write a college paper on one of the Transcendentalists. Everyone else on the professor’s list had already been selected by the other students; only Margaret Fuller remained. It sent one young student on a quest of discovery that led to a life-long fascination with the person she believes was “the great woman” behind Ralph Waldo Emerson and the movement he is credited with founding: Transcendentalism. For more about Fuller, see: www.margaretfuller.org.

There will be a Hearthside Chat at 11:45 to have a conversation about the day’s topic and the issues it raises.
For more information about upcoming events, visit fpsudbury.org or call 978-443-2043.

We hope you will join us for our worship services. All are very welcome.

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