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Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850)

From Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature
Long noted as a journalist, critic, and feminist associated with the American transcendentalism movement, Margaret Fuller remains relevant today in part because her work continues to exert a powerful influence on America's sense of, and attitude toward, the environment. Born Sarah Margaret Fuller in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1810, Margaret was the first child of Timothy Fuller (1778-1835), a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, and Margaret Crane Fuller. Timothy Fuller believed that his daughter should have an education equal to that of a boy's of the time. Consequently, he taught her to read and write at a very young age and later included Latin, Greek, and French instruction in their lessons. Fuller's formal education began when she matriculated at Cambrigeport's Port School in 1819. From 1821 to 1822, Fuller attended the Boston Lyceum for Young Ladies, and then in 1824, the School for Young Ladies in Groton, Massachusetts. After the death of her father in 1835, Fuller began…
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Journalist, women's rights activist, and critic. Fuller's major book, Women in the Nineteenth Century (1845), is a pioneering work on the right of women to be independent. Fuller served as editor of the Dial, a respected transcendentalist magazine, and became the first female journalist working for…
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From From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women
Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850)
A major force behind the nineteenth century American feminist movement, Margaret Fuller called for sexual and social equality for women. Suffrage leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton said that Fuller provided “the vindication of woman's right to think.” Fuller's most notable work, Woman in the Nineteenth…
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From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
Among American women of the Romantic era, none was more quintessentially Romantic than Margaret Fuller. Deeply inspired by the German Romantic emphasis upon self-development and the French Romantic example of sensual feminism (as embodied by George Sand), Fuller wrote the first major feminist work…
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From The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
The first full-time book reviewer, author, editor, and journalist, Margaret Fuller also produced what is considered to be the first major feminist work in the United States, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845). Susan B. Anthony would write that Fuller “possessed more influence on the thought of…
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From Trailblazing Women!: Amazing Americans Who Made History
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
Author, Editor, Journalist The first female full-time book reviewer, author, editor, and journalist, Margaret Fuller also produced what is considered to be the first major feminist work in the United States, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845). Susan B. Anthony would write that Fuller “possessed…
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Full text Article Fuller, (Sarah) Margaret (1810–1850)

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US author and reformer. She was the editor of The Dial , an important transcendentalist magazine 1839–44 (see transcendentalism , and was noted for her public ‘conversations’ calling for the enlightenment of the women of Boston during the same period. She became the literary critic for the New York…
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From A to Z of Women: American Women Leaders and Activists
Margaret Fuller was born in Cambridge,...
Also known as: Margaret Ossoli; Sarah Margaret Fuller (b. 1810–d. 1850) author, women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller was both the first professional literary critic and the first female foreign c... …
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