"Hoping This Era, I Remain at Present Here"

During the years Margaret Fuller spent in Europe (1846-1850), she wrote a series of articles for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune. Those articles or dispatches–on the newspapers they appeared under the heading “Things and Thoughts in Europe” –were not simply a way to earn a salary that made the trip to Europe possible in the first place, but they were also a way for Fuller to participate in the current affairs of the countries she was travelling to, not as one of the many American travellers, or intellectuals visiting Europe in those eventful years, but as a direct witness and participant in the political and social processes that were unfolding.