Preeminent female Victorian Age intellectual collaborates with Transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau, educates Boston Brahmins and incarcerated women in classic literature. A brilliant and brash social critic, she arrives in Rome and embeds in the Italian Republican Revolution for democratic utopianism. It ends in tragedy, but she forever alters notions of a women's right to think and work.Media TypeMovie
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