Inspirational Quotes by Margaret Fuller (American Journalist, Feminist)

Margaret Fuller (1810–50,) fully Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American woman’s rights activist, journalist, transcendentalist, literary critic, and editor. Her efforts to refine the taste and enrich the lives of her contemporaries make her significant in the history of American culture.

Born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, Fuller was educated by her father before attending the local school at age 14. She went on to teach in Boston (1836–37) and Providence (1837–39.) There she assumed a significant role in the transcendentalist clique that centered on Ralph Waldo Emerson.

In 1839–44, Fuller conducted a series of conversations and seminars for educated women in Boston. One of the outcomes of these discussions was her landmark feminist work Women in the Nineteenth Century (1845,) which contends that women as a spiritual being should be liberated from male-imposed social restrictions.

From 1840–42, she was the editor of The Dial, the transcendentalist journal, and in 1844 went to New York, where she became a literary critic for the New York Tribune. Moving to Italy in 1847, she worked as a foreign correspondent and while there, met and married Marquis Giovanni Ossoli, an Italian nobleman and republican.

After becoming involved in the unsuccessful 1848 Revolution in France, Fuller sailed for New York with her husband and infant son, but the ship was wrecked in a storm off New York’s Fire Island, and all aboard were drowned.

Fuller’s other publications include Summer on the Lakes (1844.) Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke compiled her Memoirs (1852.)

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