Life-Size Bronze Sculpture of Margaret Fuller to Be Unveiled

A life-size bronze sculpture of 19th-century literary figure and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller has been donated to the Concord Free Public Library Corporation and will be unveiled to the public on May 23, 2026. The sculpture, created in 1985 by acclaimed American artist Penelope Jencks, reflects her distinguished career in public art, which includes works such as the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument at Riverside Park in New York City, a statue of the historian Samuel Eliot Morison on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, and a statue of Robert Frost at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.