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Margaret Fuller Played Ball?
Salience | Peripheral |
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Tags | Famous, FemalesFamous, Females |
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City/State/Country: | Cambridge, Groton, MA, US |
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Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
Age of Players | JuvenileJuvenile |
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Text | Writer and Women's Rights advocate Margaret Fuller recalled that as a child she preferred boys' games. |
Sources | {Reportedly in} John Matteson, The Lives of Margaret Fuller, (Norton, 2012?), as quoted in a New Yorker book review, February 6, 2012. |
Warning | As of October 2013, we have been unable to confirm that Fuller played base-running games. |
Comment | We should confirm this report in the Matteson book when possible. Fuller grew up in Cambridge MA, and received early education in Groton MA. "Fuller regretted that girls are told 'they can’t do that' when they try to play ball" See http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2013/05/no-purely-feminine-woman/; no source given. Edit with form to add a comment |
Query | Does the text actually cite a baserunning game as one that she played? Edit with form to add a query |
Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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Submitted by | Dorothy Mills |
Submission Note | Email of 10/4/2013 |
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