Her Parents Are Timothy and Margaret Crane Fuller

Margaret Fuller

·  Sarah Margaret Fuller was born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts on May 1810. The oldest of eight children.

·  Her parents are Timothy and Margaret Crane Fuller.

·  Her father, a Harvard-educated lawyer and stern New England Puritan, believed women were the intellectual equals of men and educated Margaret Fuller accordingly.

·  In 1833 Margaret Fuller mother became ill. Being the oldest child, Margaret stayed and helped support the family by teaching at Bronson Alcott.

·  In 1835 her father died and since her siblings were old enough to take care of themselves, Margaret decided to move on with her life, taking a job as an editor at The Dial, the journal of the Transcendentalists.

·  In 1839 she established formal conversations on various topics through The Dial, primarily for women, which was very successful.

·  In 1844, Horace Greeley invited Margaret Fuller to write for the Herald Tribune as the first female reporter in America. A year later, Greeley published Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century, the first women's liberation book in the United States and her best-known work.

·  Commissioned by Greeley to write articles on the political scene in Europe, Fuller set out for the continent in 1846.

·  She arrived in time to witness the 1848-49 upheaval in Italian politics, on which she reported extensively for the Tribune.

·  While in Italy, Margaret Fuller had met the Italian nobleman, the Marchese Giovanni Angelo Ossoli, whom she later married.

·  On September 5, 1848, Fuller gave birth to a son, but she and Ossoli kept the child's birth a secret until their marriage in late 1849.

·  Following the fall of the Roman Republic, Fuller and Ossoli retreated to Florence, but persistent political pressures and poverty constrained Fuller to return to the United States with her new family in 1850 to seek a publisher for her history of the Italian revolution of 1848-49 which she had written following the fall of Rome.

·  On July 19, within sight of the New Jersey shore, her ship struck ground on Fire Island and broke apart. Margaret Fuller and her family perished in the wreck.

Themes

·  Women’s rights

References

[Sarah] Margaret Fuller. (n.d.). Retrieved from American Transcedentalism Web: http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/authors/fuller/

Biography.com. (n.d.). Margaret Fuller Biography. Retrieved from The Biography.com.

Chastain, J. (2004, October 18). Sarah Margaret Fuller, Marchessa Ossoli. Retrieved from University of Ohio: www.ohio.edu/chastain/dh/fuller.htm

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