Fuller’s new book, “Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism,” chronicles that time and place, and especially those women: Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Peabody ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts.

In 1977, when New Directions for Women was founded by women searching for answers, including one of the primary founders, Pamela Wilder, who rallied the Junior League of Orange County to step up ...