Margaret Fuller

Sarah Margaret Fuller was born in 1810 at Cambridgeport, near Boston, the daughter of a lawyer and legislator who had her begin Latin in childhood and imposed on her a very strict discipline of study. On her father's death, she took charge of her brothers and sisters. She taught, held in Boston, from 1839 to 1844, conversations in which women studied together what they were kept away from, edited the transcendentalists' journal, then became the first American woman foreign correspondent. She died in 1850, on her return from Italy.

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• EssayWoman in the Nineteenth CenturyMargaret Fuller · 1845Literature