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Margaret Fuller
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American writer and women's activist (1810–1850)
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Margaret Fuller was an American journalist, translator, reporter, and essayist. Born Sarah Margaret Fuller in Cambridge in 1810, she worked primarily in the field of essay writing and wrote in English. She was influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and held worldviews associated with feminism and transcendentalism.
Fuller received the National Women's Hall of Fame award. Her notable works include *A last letter of Margaret Fuller Ossoli*, *Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli* (Volumes 1-2), and *Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller*. She died in 1850 on Fire Island due to drowning, resulting from accidental death and homicide. She is described by sources such as the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary* and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1810
- Died
- 1850
- Works
- 36
Top works
- A last letter of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller
- Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volumes 1-2
- Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli; Volume 2
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- human
- Given name
- Sarah
- Family name
- Fuller
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cambridge
- Place of death
- Fire Island
- Father
- Timothy Fuller
- Occupation
- reporter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- transcendentalism
- Field of work
- essay
- Image
- Margaret Fuller by Chappel.jpg
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- cause of death
- drowning
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- place of burial
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Works in European collections
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Encyclopedic overview
Sarah Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first American female war correspondent and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she was given a substantial early education by her father, Timothy Fuller, a lawyer who died in 1835 due to cholera. She later had more formal schooling and became a teacher before, in 1839, she began overseeing her Conversations series: classes for women meant to compensate for their lack of access to higher education. She became the first editor of the transcendentalist journal The Dial in 1840, which was the year her writing career started to succeed, before joining the staff of the New-York Tribune under Horace Greeley in 1844.
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