Full Name: Sarah Margaret Fuller, also known as Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Profession: Feminist and Journalist
Biography: Margaret Fuller is best known for her book "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" (1845), a major feminist work.
Fuller was born in 1810 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her father gave her a rigorous education from a young age. In 1839, she began holding discussion groups for women in Boston known as "Conversations."
In 1840, Fuller became the first editor of The Dial, a transcendentalist journal. She later published "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," which made her a leading voice for women's rights. In 1844, she became the first female editor at the New-York Tribune.
The Tribune sent Fuller to Europe in 1846 as its first female foreign correspondent. While there, she met figures like Thomas Carlyle and Giuseppe Mazzini. She also began a relationship with Giovanni Ossoli, with whom she had a child in 1848.
In 1850, Fuller, Ossoli, and their son died in a shipwreck off the coast of New York as they were returning to America.
Born: May 23, 1810
Birthplace: Cambridge,, Massachusetts, USA
Star Sign: Gemini
Died: July 19, 1850 (aged 40)
Cause of Death: Drowned after being shipwrecked aboard the US merchant ship 'Elizabeth,' which ran aground 100 yards from Fire Island, New York
Historical Events
- 1839-10-20 Margaret Fuller is appointed editor of new US Transcendental Magazine "The Dial"
- 1850-07-19 American cargo ship 'Elizabeth', returning from Italy, wrecks in a storm of coast of Fire Island, New York, killing 10, including journalist Margaret Fuller, her husband, and child
Biographies and Sources
- Margaret Fuller - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Margaret Fuller - Poetry Foundation
- Wreck of the Elizabeth - National Park Service
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