Journalist+Biography

Caitlin Nurenberg 12/14/2010   2nd hour Margaret Fuller Margaret Fuller was conceived as a very intelligent and precious child. From a very early age, her father had provided a rigorous and intense education where she learned the subjects such as German Latin Roman and French literature and Greek. She recalls suffering from painful migraines because of the rigorous education and long hours of studying that her father had drilled into her. She attended many schools and continued her education. Before she prompted her career, Fuller had established formal conversations on various topics, primarily for women. From the years 1840 to 1842, she served with Emerson as editor of [|//The Dial//] a journal she wrote many articles and reviews on art and literature. In 1843, //The Dial// published her essay [|//The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men, Woman versus Women//] in which called for women's equality. In 1844, after arriving from an extensive trip west, she published a book called //Summer on the Lakes//. Charmed by this book, Horace Greeley asked Margaret Fuller to join his news paper, the New York //Tribune// as the book review editor, and she became fairly successful, branching into art and cultural reviews. In 1845 she had expanded her //Dial// essay and published [|//Woman in the Nineteenth Century//] [|,] which became a classic of feminist contemplation. As foreign journalist for the //Tribune//. Fuller traveled across Europe and sent back articles about letters and art in Europe, meeting many well-known European writers and intellectuals. Once she got to Italy, she became involved in the revolution and decided not to return to America for a while. She fell in love with man named Marchese Giovanni Angelo d'Ossoli, a much younger man of the insignificant nobility and a fellow revolutionary. They had a child a year later before their marriage, naming their son Angelo. During the Revolution of 1848 and the siege of Rome by the French forces, Fuller assumed charge of one of the hospitals of the city, while her husband took part in the fighting. When the revolution failed, they decided to sail to America, in May 1850. Her friends, had recently discovered her husband and child, where concerned wondered how well the "new" Margaret would fit into her old world. She told them she was carrying the manuscript of a book on the Italian revolution, but she left her large collection of letters, and those with Emerson, with her friends in Europe. Her premonition of disaster proved true. The ship's captain died of smallpox, and his replacement having being less accomplished, ran the ship aground in a storm off of New York. On July 19, 1850. Although having to be in sight of land, Fuller, Ossoli, and Angelo drowned as the ship went down. Her friends were sent to the wreckage, looking for her manuscript or any other remains, but they were lost to the sea and scavengers In her life time, Margaret Fuller was the first women journalist to have ever perceived a career. Fuller had contributed significantly the American Renaissance in literature during the nineteenth century reform movements. Women and men who had attended Fullers conversations found her influence life changing. One of her most famous works of Fullers, //Women of the Nineteenth Century// profoundly effected the women’s rights movement which began three years prior is Seneca Falls, New York. Many recall Fuller as America’s first true feminist. Fuller holds a distinct place in the life of the American Renaissance. Throughout her life she was a [|Transcendentalist], literary, critic, editor, journalist, teacher, political activist and more over began a revolution. All of the friends that Fuller was closely acquainted with regarded her with admiration and awe.