Margaret Fuller Spoon River

Margaret Fuller, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Theodore Dreiser are all real people, recreated by the book Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters to portray their lives and how they lived even after death.

Margaret Fuller was a woman’s rights activist, a writer, and a literary critic. She is best known for her feminist writing and literary criticism in 19th century America. She was born May 23, 1810 in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. She was entwined with intellectuals around Massachusetts, including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Later, Fuller conducted “conversations” with prominent intellectuals of the day and starting the journal The Dial, a transcendentalist magazine.

Margaret’s father’s name was Timothy Fuller, a lawyer-politician. He was disappointed

Standing for a picture of some sort. In the novel, she marries a man named John Slack, and had eight children. She began to run out of time and had no time to write. So, in a sense, she’s a feminist who writes but she had eight children rather than one and didn’t have any more time to write. According to the novel, she died when she ran a needle through her hand and got tetanus. She was washing her baby's clothes and she must have forgotten that she had a needle in the baby’s clothes. Because, back then washing machines weren’t a thing, she had to wash all of her laundry by hand. So, her life in the book and her real life, were basically the opposite. She had more kids and didn’t travel much and she died a completely different

His father owned a wagon shop and he grew rich by shoeing horses. His father is the one who sent him to college, and he send him to University of Montreal, not the University College, Oxford. Yet, in the novel it says he learned nothing and returned home. Nothing was ever mentioned about a Bert Kessler or him going hunting. The book makes the notion that he drowns but also makes the notion that he gets shot while hunting on the lake. The book and his real life do have one similarity, in both scenarios, he was cremated after he died, but, in the book his ashes were scattered somewhere near