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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. She was the first American female war correspondent and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the…
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Born 23 May 1810 · Died 19 July 1850 · Q257953
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“I am absurdly fearful and various omens have combined to give me a dark feeling ... It seems to me that my future upon earth will soon close ... I have a vague expectation of some crisis—I know not what”
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“of the softer sex, and never more than now”
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A historical marker in honor of Fuller was placed in Polhill Park in Beacon, New York, to commemorate her stay at Van Vliet boarding house
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Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1995).
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Fuller was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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“Homeward Voyage, and Memorials”
Died 1850-07-19.
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“It has long seemed that in the year 1850 I should stand on some important plateau in the ascent of life ... I feel however no marked and important change as yet.”
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“I am 'too fiery' … yet I wish to be seen as I am, and would lose all rather than soften away anything.”
“Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.”
“What Woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely and unimpeded.”
“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”
“Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.”
“For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.”
After it had been voted by the Constituent Assembly, elected by universal male suffrage in January 1849
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To celebrate the anniversary of their first meeting but one biographer provided evidence they first met on April 1 during the ceremony called "Lavanda degli Altari" (Altars Lavage)
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The New-York Tribune sent Fuller to Europe, specifically England and Italy, as its first female foreign correspondent
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It was entitled Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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In part because of ill health but also because of her disappointment with the publication's dwindling subscription list
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Which was the year her writing career started to succeed, before joining the staff of the New-York Tribune under Horace Greeley in 1844
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Fuller held the first of her Conversations, discussions among local women who met in the Boston home of the Peabodys
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And began work in the first week of 1840
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Began overseeing her Conversations series: classes for women meant to compensate for their lack of access to higher education
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Fuller was given a job teaching at Bronson Alcott's Temple School in Boston, where she remained for a year
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Frederic Henry Hedge and James Freeman Clarke asked her to contribute to each of their periodicals
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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
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Was sent to the School for Young Ladies in Groton, on the advice of aunts and uncles, though she resisted the idea at first
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Before attending the Boston Lyceum for Young Ladies from 1821 to 1822
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Her brother William Henry Fuller was born, and her father was elected as a representative to the United States Congress
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In Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, the first child of Congressman Timothy Fuller and Margaret Crane Fuller
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Born 1810-05-23.
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“On 23 May 1810, was born one foredoomed to sorrow and pain, and like others to have misfortunes.”
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