Summer On The Lakes, In 1843 is not simply Fuller's portfolio of sketches, poems, stories, anecdotes, dialogues, and reflections on her Great Lakes journey, but also a record of her internal journey of self-exploration. Specialists in women's studies will be drawn to her impressions of'women of the west,' which in some ways foreshadow her will-known feminist study Women in the Nineteenth Century. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.