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Margaret Fuller, who spent her life protesting injustice, died at the age of 40 in a shipwreck off New York Harbor while onlookers watched from the shore. She was America’s first feminist, first female literary critic and first woman foreign correspondent. She was known as the best-read woman in New England (and therefore probably the country).
Margaret Fuller. 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 ...
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- July 19, 1850 (aged 40), off Fire Island, New York, U.S.
- Sarah Margaret Fuller, May 23, 1810, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Transcendentalism
Jul 31, 2015 · “Here’s Thoreau, he is being sent by Emerson, also a very important figure to our collections, to investigate the death of Margaret Fuller. And the Fuller papers are here,” said Leslie Morris, the curator of modern books and manuscripts, who helped acquire the manuscript. “It really plays to three of our major figures here at the library.
- Harvardgazette
Apr 2, 2014 · Personal Life and Death Traveling to Italy in 1847, Margaret Fuller met Giovanni Angelo, the Marchese d'Ossoli, ten years younger and of liberal principles. They became lovers, had a son in 1848 ...
Margaret Fuller (born May 23, 1810, Cambridgeport [now part of Cambridge], Mass., U.S.—died July 19, 1850, at sea off Fire Island, N.Y.) was an American critic, teacher, and woman of letters whose efforts to civilize the taste and enrich the lives of her contemporaries make her significant in the history of American culture.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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May 25, 2021 · Margaret Fuller. Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), one of the most important American feminists of her day, was a philosopher, journalist, and literary critic. She belonged to the New England intellectual community called the transcendentalists, who also included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Her most important written work is Woman ...
Sarah Margaret Fuller was born 23 May 1810 in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. Her father was a lawyer and, for eight years, a representative of Congress, enabling him to move in influential political circles. Margaret was educated at home and also at the Boston Lyceum for Young Ladies (1821-22). She was a voracious reader and became well-known ...
