Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Glossary

• churls peasants, crude people without refinement or culture
• dissolute characterized by a lack of moral restraint, debauched
• ennui boredom
• expediency the quality of being practical, useful, or fit for the purpose
• Graces in Greek and Roman mythology, the personifications of joy, beauty, charm, happiness, and festivity
• helots in ancient Greece, serfs
• Lord Edward Fitzgerald Irish aristocrat (1763–1798) who traveled throughout Canada and what was then the territories west of the United States
• Louis XIV king of France (1638–1715)
• profligate wasteful, extravagant
• Quaker a member of a religious sect, more formally called the Religious Society of Friends, known for recognizing relative equality in women