67 Facts About Margaret Fuller

Sarah Margaret Fuller, 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.

Margaret Fuller was the first American female war correspondent and full-time book reviewer in journalism.

Margaret Fuller 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.

Margaret Fuller 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.

Margaret Fuller soon became involved with the revolutions in Italy and allied herself with Giuseppe Mazzini.

Margaret Fuller had a relationship with Giovanni Ossoli, with whom she had a child.

Margaret Fuller was an advocate of women's rights and, in particular, women's education and the right to employment.

Margaret Fuller encouraged many other reforms in society, including prison reform and the emancipation of slaves in the United States.

Margaret Fuller said that Fuller was a talker rather than an activist.

Sarah Margaret Fuller was born on May 23,1810, in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, the first child of Congressman Timothy Fuller and Margaret Crane Fuller.

Margaret Fuller's father taught her to read and write at the age of three and a half, shortly after the couple's second daughter, Julia Adelaide, died at 14 months old.

Margaret Fuller offered her an education as rigorous as any boy's at the time and forbade her to read the typical feminine fare of the time, such as etiquette books and sentimental novels.

Margaret Fuller incorporated Latin into his teaching shortly after the birth of the couple's son Eugene in May 1815, and soon Margaret was translating simple passages from Virgil.

Later in life, Margaret Fuller blamed her father's exacting love and his valuation of accuracy and precision for her childhood nightmares and sleepwalking.

In 1817, her brother William Henry Margaret Fuller was born, and her father was elected as a representative to the United States Congress.

Margaret Fuller began her formal education at the Port School in Cambridgeport in 1819 before attending the Boston Lyceum for Young Ladies from 1821 to 1822.

On June 17,1825, Margaret Fuller attended the ceremony at which the American Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette laid the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument 50 years after the battle.

Margaret Fuller left the Groton school after two years and returned home at 16.

Margaret Fuller was an avid reader, known for translating German literature and bringing German Romanticism to the United States.

Margaret Fuller used her knowledge to give private lessons based on the teaching style of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.

Margaret Fuller hoped to earn her living through journalism and translation; her first published work, a response to historian George Bancroft, appeared in November 1834 in the North American Review.

Margaret Fuller was deeply affected by his death: "My father's image follows me constantly", she wrote.

Margaret Fuller vowed to step in as the head of the family and take care of her widowed mother and younger siblings.

Margaret Fuller's father had not left a will, and two of her uncles gained control of his property and finances, later assessed at $18,098.15, and the family had to rely on them for support.

Around this time, Margaret Fuller was hoping to prepare a biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but felt that she could work on it only if she traveled to Europe.

In 1836, Margaret Fuller was given a job teaching at Bronson Alcott's Temple School in Boston, where she remained for a year.

Margaret Fuller then accepted an invitation to teach under Hiram Fuller at the Greene Street School in Providence, Rhode Island, in April 1837 with the unusually high salary of $1,000 per year.

Margaret Fuller's family sold the Groton farm and Fuller moved with them to Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

On November 6,1839, Margaret Fuller held the first of her Conversations, discussions among local women who met in the Boston home of the Peabodys.

Margaret Fuller intended to compensate for the lack of women's education with discussions and debates focused on subjects including the fine arts, history, mythology, literature, and nature.

In Conversations, Margaret Fuller was finally finding equal intellectual companions among her female contemporaries.

Margaret Fuller accepted Emerson's offer to edit The Dial on October 20,1839, and began work in the first week of 1840.

Margaret Fuller edited the journal from 1840 to 1842, though her promised annual salary of $200 was never paid.

Margaret Fuller never officially joined the community but was a frequent visitor, often spending New Year's Eve there.

Margaret Fuller reported her experiences in a book called Summer on the Lakes, which she completed writing on her 34th birthday in 1844.

Margaret Fuller originally intended to name the work The Great Lawsuit: Man 'versus' Men, Woman 'versus' Women; when it was expanded and published independently in 1845, it was entitled Woman in the Nineteenth Century.

Margaret Fuller left The Dial in 1844 in part because of ill health but because of her disappointment with the publication's dwindling subscription list.

Margaret Fuller moved to New York that autumn and joined Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune as a literary critic, becoming the first full-time book reviewer in American journalism and, by 1846, the publication's first female editor.

Margaret Fuller published poetry; her poems, styled after the work of Emerson, do not have the same intellectual vigor as her criticism.

George Sand had previously been an idol of hers, but Margaret Fuller was disappointed when Sand chose not to run for the French National Assembly, saying that women were not ready to vote or to hold political office.

Margaret Fuller was given a letter of introduction to Elizabeth Barrett by Cornelius Mathews, but did not meet her at that time, because Barrett had just eloped with Robert Browning.

Margaret Fuller met the Roman patriot Giovanni Angelo Ossoli, a marquis belonging to a noble family not particularly rich who worked as an employee at an uncle's commercial office and at the same time volunteered in the Civic Guard corps.

Margaret Fuller was originally opposed to marrying him, in part because she was Protestant and he was Catholic.

Ossoli fought on the ramparts of the Vatican walls while Margaret Fuller volunteered at two supporting hospitals.

Margaret Fuller edited a new version of Woman in the Nineteenth Century in 1855.

In February 1852, The Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli was published, edited by Emerson, James Freeman Clarke, and William Henry Channing, though much of the work was censored or reworded.

Margaret Fuller was voted sixth in a mass magazine poll to select twenty American women for the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at University Heights in New York City in 1902.

Margaret Fuller was an early proponent of feminism and especially believed in providing education to women.

Margaret Fuller advocated that women seek any employment they wish, rather than catering to the stereotypical "feminine" roles of the time, such as teaching.

Margaret Fuller had great confidence in all women but doubted that a woman would produce a lasting work of art or literature in her time and disliked the popular female poets of her time.

Margaret Fuller warned women to be careful about marriage and not to become dependent on their husbands.

Margaret Fuller suggested that within a female were two parts: the intellectual side and the "lyrical" or "Femality" side.

Margaret Fuller admired the work of Emanuel Swedenborg, who believed men and women shared "an angelic ministry", as she wrote, as well as Charles Fourier, who placed "Woman on an entire equality with Man".

Margaret Fuller advocated reform at all levels of society, including prison.

Margaret Fuller was concerned about the homeless and those living in dire poverty, especially in New York.

Margaret Fuller admitted that, though she was raised to believe "that the Indian obstinately refused to be civilized", her travels in the American West made her realize that the white man unfairly treated the Native Americans; she considered Native Americans an important part of American heritage.

Margaret Fuller agreed with the transcendental concern for the psychological well-being of the individual, though she was never comfortable being labeled a transcendentalist.

Margaret Fuller criticized people such as Emerson for focusing too much on individual improvement and not enough on social reform.

Margaret Fuller has been cited as a vegetarian because she criticized the slaughter of animals for food in her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century.

Margaret Fuller was especially known in her time for her personality and, in particular, for being overly self-confident and having a bad temper.

Margaret Fuller was an inspiration to poet Walt Whitman, who believed in her call for the forging of a new national identity and a truly American literature.

Margaret Fuller said that Fuller's history of the Roman Republic would have been her greatest work: "The work she was preparing upon Italy would probably have been more equal to her faculty than anything previously produced by her pen ".

Anthony, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage wrote in their History of Woman Suffrage that Margaret Fuller "was the precursor of the Women's Rights agitation".

In 1995, Margaret Fuller was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Margaret Fuller compared her own move from Boston to New York to Fuller's, saying that Boston was not a good place for intellectuals, despite the assumption that it was the best place for intellectuals.

In 1995, Margaret Fuller was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

On June 21,2016, a historical marker in honor of Margaret Fuller was placed in Polhill Park in Beacon, NY, to commemorate her staying at Van Vliet boarding house.