'May We Put Forth Our Leaves': Rhetoric in the School Journal of Mary Ware Allen, Student of Margaret Fuller, 1837-1838.

A student diary that describes classes with Margaret Fuller at Providence's Greene Street School provides a glimpse of Fuller's influence on the education of women. In her teaching Fuller brought women writers and thinkers to the attention of her students and promoted the development their own writing skills through the keeping of journals. This diary is a source for studying Fuller's own emerging ideas.